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When ACPI is enabled, my NIC works, but my mouse doesnt work.
If i disable it, the mouse works, but the NIC wont.

I'll get the dmesg once I try to install 4.9 tonight from home.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernd Walter" <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de>
To: "Sam Sen" <techlists@kubicle.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: National SemiConductor NIC


> On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 10:30:35AM -0500, Sam Sen wrote:
> > Had problems with the National SemiConductor NIC (sis0 chipset) when I
was running freebsd 4.8.
> > i moved to 5.1, and everything seemed to work fine except that my mouse
no longer worked.
>
> Sparse information to help you with your mouse.
>
> > The error message I was getting was "sis0: watchdog time out"
> > I wonder if this has been fixed in 4.9
>
> Sounds like an interrupt problem, but yet again hard to say more
> without at least dmesg and pciconf -lv to see details of your hardware
> and what the kernel thinks about it.
> I'm not aware of any problem with NatSemi chips in general, likely that
> this is something special with your ntoebook.
>
> --
> B.Walter                   BWCT                http://www.bwct.de
> ticso@bwct.de                                  info@bwct.de
>