Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:47:41 -0700 From: "David Christensen" <davidch@broadcom.com> To: "John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Cc: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> Subject: RE: Broadcom NIC not recognized by FreeBSD? Message-ID: <5D267A3F22FD854F8F48B3D2B523819339EBCC7074@IRVEXCHCCR01.corp.ad.broadcom.com> In-Reply-To: <200906120838.06973.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <20090610174211.GA78796@crodrigues.org> <5D267A3F22FD854F8F48B3D2B523819339EBA5F118@IRVEXCHCCR01.corp.ad.broadcom.com> <20090612040939.GA293@crodrigues.org> <200906120838.06973.jhb@freebsd.org>
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> > > The bge driver recognizes the controller but fails to get the > > > adapter's BAR memory mapped by the OS. Since it's only > requesting > > > 64KB it sounds like an OS issue. If you remove any other PCI > > > devices in the system does the bge driver load? > > > > I cannot remove any devices from the system. > > The problem is occurring on an Acer Aspire 5920 laptop with no > > external devices plugged into it. > > You can try disabling ACPI. On some machines ACPI > initialization inexpicably clears the I/O windows in certain > PCI-PCI bridges and FreeBSD does not cope well with this case. Does that apply to memory windows too? The device doesn't support legacy I/O, only memory mapped registers. Davehelp
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