Re: if_wpi will not work for me

Torfinn Ingolfsen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:57:11 +0100
Johan Johansen <[email protected]> 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
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