From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 18 20:41:55 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E58EA106564A for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:41:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johan@tausa.cc.uit.no) Received: from mux1.uit.no (mux1.uit.no [129.242.4.252]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 729B58FC1E for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:41:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from johan@tausa.cc.uit.no) Received: from flode.cc.uit.no (flode.cc.uit.no [129.242.6.250]) by mux1.uit.no (8.13.8/8.13.6/Mux) with ESMTP id m2IKfrTV085314 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:41:53 +0100 (CET) Received: from tausa.cc.uit.no (tausa.cc.uit.no [129.242.6.78]) by flode.cc.uit.no (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m2IKg5t9036574 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:42:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from johan@tausa.cc.uit.no) Received: from tausa.cc.uit.no (localhost.cc.uit.no [127.0.0.1]) by tausa.cc.uit.no (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m2IKfrHY001964 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:41:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from johan@tausa.cc.uit.no) Message-Id: <200803182041.m2IKfrHY001964@tausa.cc.uit.no> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <20080318142844.f1bee977.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <200803181157.m2IBvBLb000594@tausa.cc.uit.no> <20080318142844.f1bee977.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Comments: In-reply-to Torfinn Ingolfsen message dated "Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:28:44 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:41:53 +0100 From: Johan Johansen X-Virus-Scanned: : ok X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 129.242.4.252 Subject: Re: if_wpi will not work for me X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:41:56 -0000 > On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:57:11 +0100 > Johan Johansen wrote: > > > My notebook is HP Compaq nc2400 running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE > > > > kldload if_wpi give me > > Mar 18 10:29:34 juba kernel: wpi0: > > mem 0xf0000000-0xf0000fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci8 > > Mar 18 10:29:34 juba kernel: wpi0: could not allocate memory resource > > Mar 18 10:29:34 juba kernel: device_attach: wpi0 attach returned 6 > > > > and ifconfig show no wpi0 > > > > I have not seen this behaviour mentioned before, so could anyone > > give me some hints, please? > > I have something like that on my Acer laptop (Aspire 5672). Network > drivers (wpi and bge) fails to attach unless I disable acpi. > Unfortunately, acpi is necessary for other important things (thermal > control, cpu speed control) so running without it is not an option. > > I have troed a lot of things to fix this (suggested by other people), > but no luck so far. > I think it is due to a bug in bios / acpi. > More info about my laptop and FreeBSD here: > http://tingox.googlepages.com/aceraspireas5672andfreebsd > > FWIW, the laptop runs Linux (Ubuntu) without problems: > http://tingox.googlepages.com/as5672_xubuntu > > HTH > -- > Regards, > Torfinn Ingolfsen > Norway I will check to see if stopping acpi does any differ, but that will probably not be a good solution for me. Linux is out of the question! I see there have been som talk about a patch the last days, wpi_releng7.diff Could that do me any good? mvh johan