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Subject: Re: Acer Aspire 5672 laptop and FreeBSD 8.0-stable
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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.

-- 
John Baldwin