Re: if_wpi will not work for me

Johan Johansen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I believe there is two issues here. The innocent message is:
> 
> //        wpi0: bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly.
> 
> //This is handled by the driver and the driver version now in 
> -Current/RELENG_7 has a proper fix preventing this from occurring.
> 
> However, //
> 
> //        wpi0: could not allocate memory resource
>         device_attach: wpi0 attach returned 6
> 
> Is caused by pci memory not being available. This seems to be occurring 
> on pci-pci bridges on some laptops and will render you without a wpi 
> device showing up.
> At present the cause is unknown but I'm working to try and fix it. It's 
> not actually driver related but pci bus related.
> 
> Also, adding more memory won't help fix the problem.
> 
> Cheers,
> Benjamin
> 

Nice, then I know it is not necessarily my fault this is not working.
Thank you. And also thanks to you other guys trying to help.

I'll just stick to my old Wavelan Silver card for now. My network admin
will be grumpy, but him I can handle.

mvh
Johan

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