Re: Acer Aspire 5672 laptop and FreeBSD 8.0-stable
Torfinn Ingolfsen <[email protected]>
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Update: I have now tested this laptop[1] with FreeBSD 8.2-stable[2]. The results are the same as when it was tested with 8.0-stable. It still needs patching of the PCIe code to get network interfaces to work. I used a patch[3] made by Alexander Motin for a different machine, amd even if the seconfd hunk of the patch was rejected, the wireless interface (wpi0) works. 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]. > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" References: 1) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/as5672 2) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/aceraspireas5672andfreebsd 3) http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/tm6292_pcie.patch -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"