Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:41:53 +0100 From: Johan Johansen <Johan.Johansen@cc.uit.no> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_wpi will not work for me Message-ID: <200803182041.m2IKfrHY001964@tausa.cc.uit.no> In-Reply-To: <20080318142844.f1bee977.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <200803181157.m2IBvBLb000594@tausa.cc.uit.no> <20080318142844.f1bee977.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:57:11 +0100 > Johan Johansen <Johan.Johansen@cc.uit.no> 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: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG> > > 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
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