Re: Acer Aspire 5672 laptop and FreeBSD 8.0-stable

Torfinn Ingolfsen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:20:11 -0400
John Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Friday, July 15, 2011 3:34:58 pm Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Please try adding 'options NEW_PCIB' to your kernel config on a recent 8-
> stable instead.  You should not need Alexander's patch in this case.

I did, and now it works. Nice, very nice! dmesg output here:
http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/aceraspireas5672andfreebsd

Thanks!
-- 
Torfinn

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