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Cc: Mario Pavlov <freebsd@abv.bg>
Subject: Re: bge and wpi do not function on aspire 5920
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On Monday 12 May 2008 22:33:06 Mario Pavlov wrote:
> Hi list,
> I've just bought ACER ASPIRE 5920 notebook and I've installed
> FreeBSD-7.0-AMD64 right the way and I've noticed that neither the LAN card
> nor the WLAN card work
> I'm not 100% sure what the LAN card is but it should of the BroadCom
> NetLink family however I get the following in the boot messages
>
> bge0: <BroadCom NetLink Gigabit Ethernet Controller, ASIC rev. 0xb002> irq
> 17 at device 0.0 on pci8 bge0: 0x10000 bytes of rid 0x10 res 3 failed (0,
> 0xffffffffffffffff). bge0: couldn't map memory
> device_attach: bge0 attach returned 6
>
> after I saw that I've tried the WLAN by kldload if_wpi and I got this:
>
> wpi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG> irq19 at device 0.0 on pci6
> wpi0: 0x1000 bytes of rid 0x10 res 3 failed (0, 0xffffffffffffffff).
> wpi0: could not allocate memory resource
> device_attach: wpi0 attach returned 6

I think the core of your problems start here and degrade from then on:


> acpi_ec0: <Embedded Controller: GPE 0x18> port 0x62,0x66 on acpi0
> acpi_ec0: warning: EC done before starting event wait

...

> acpi_ec0: wait timed out (response), forcing polled mode

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-debug.html

would be recommended reading.

-- 
Mel