Re: Acer Aspire 5672 laptop and FreeBSD 8.0-stable
Torfinn Ingolfsen <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:26:15 +0100 Torfinn Ingolfsen <[email protected]> wrote: > This is just a FYI, > > I have an Acer Aspire 5672 laptop[1], which mainly runs Xubuntu, because FreeBSD doesn't work very well on it. From time to time, I test it with FreeBSD to see if the situation has improved. > The results for FreeBSD 8.0-stable are now in[2]. FYI: I have now tested this laptop with FreeBSD 8.1-release. The results are the same as with 8.0-stable: due to troubles with decoding PCIe bridges correctly (or somesuch) the network interfaces - wireless (wpi) and wired (bge) doesn't work. Patches to the pci code might help this, but I have not tested that yet. As before, dmesg output are on the web page maentioned in the original post. > What can I say? > > The only way I can get network interfaces (bge, wpi) working is by disabling acpi. However, I can't run the laptop with acpi disabled for longer periods of time, because it will overheat. > If acpi is enabled, and I kldload if_wpi the machine panics (page fault). > > In short, this particular laptop doesn't work very well with FreeBSD. > > References: > 1) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/as5672 > 2) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/aceraspireas5672andfreebsd > -- > Regards, > Torfinn Ingolfsen HTH -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"