From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 8 23:35:54 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFCFC106566C for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 23:35:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from thalia-smout.broadpark.no (thalia-smout.broadpark.no [80.202.8.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABCB58FC0A for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 23:35:54 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from terra-smin.broadpark.no ([80.202.8.13]) by thalia-smout.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u3-15.01 64bit (built Feb 12 2010)) with ESMTP id <0L9Z003WVTFS2Z40@thalia-smout.broadpark.no> for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:35:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kg-v2.kg4.no ([80.203.109.34]) by terra-smin.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u3-15.01 64bit (built Feb 12 2010)) with SMTP id <0L9Z00EKUTFR3V60@terra-smin.broadpark.no> for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:35:52 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:35:51 +0200 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-id: <20101009003551.c91e6b0f.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-reply-to: <20100116212615.963c6ed6.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <20100116212615.963c6ed6.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.3 (GTK+ 2.20.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.1) X-Face: "t9w2,-X@O^I`jVW\sonI3.,36KBLZE*AL[y9lL[PyFD*r_S:dIL9c[8Y>V42R0"!"yb_zN,f#%.[PYYNq; m"_0v; ~rUM2Yy!zmkh)3&U|u!=T(zyv,MHJv"nDH>OJ`t(@mil461d_B'Uo|'nMwlKe0Mv=kvV?Nh@>Hb<3s_z2jYgZhPb@?Wi^x1a~Hplz1.zH Subject: Re: Acer Aspire 5672 laptop and FreeBSD 8.0-stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 23:35:55 -0000 On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:26:15 +0100 Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > This is just a FYI, > > I have an Acer Aspire 5672 laptop[1], which mainly runs Xubuntu, because FreeBSD doesn't work very well on it. From time to time, I test it with FreeBSD to see if the situation has improved. > The results for FreeBSD 8.0-stable are now in[2]. FYI: I have now tested this laptop with FreeBSD 8.1-release. The results are the same as with 8.0-stable: due to troubles with decoding PCIe bridges correctly (or somesuch) the network interfaces - wireless (wpi) and wired (bge) doesn't work. Patches to the pci code might help this, but I have not tested that yet. As before, dmesg output are on the web page maentioned in the original post. > What can I say? > > The only way I can get network interfaces (bge, wpi) working is by disabling acpi. However, I can't run the laptop with acpi disabled for longer periods of time, because it will overheat. > If acpi is enabled, and I kldload if_wpi the machine panics (page fault). > > In short, this particular laptop doesn't work very well with FreeBSD. > > References: > 1) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/as5672 > 2) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/aceraspireas5672andfreebsd > -- > Regards, > Torfinn Ingolfsen HTH -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen