Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 07:41:44 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: subgeometer <biggerbumme@yahoo.co.in> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem network devices Acer Extensa 5635G Message-ID: <4BE94278.1010101@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <28494831.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <201004122301.45040.g.veniamin@googlemail.com> <28494831.post@talk.nabble.com>
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subgeometer wrote: > I have a very similar problem with Acer Extensa 5635z on which I installed > freebsd-8.0 > >> I see only loop deveice > I also only see lo0, but the error mesages are slightly different > > the following text appears in dmesg output(transcribed from notepaper at > Internet cafe) > > ath0: <Atheros 9280> irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci7 > atho: 0x10000 bytes of rid 0x10 res 3 failed (0, 0xffffffffffffffff) > ath0: cannot map register space > device_attach: ath0 returned 6 > ... > alc0: <Atheros AR8131 PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci9 > alc0: 0x40000 bytes of rid 0x10 res 3 failed (0, 0xffffffffffffffff) > alc0: cannot map memory resources > device_attach: ac0 attach returned 6 > > > Using pciconf -lv the drivers are shown bound to the devices(although the > SMBus device and the 'high definition audio device' each had no driver - > none0 and none1) > > I saw the inference elsewhere that this was related to the wlan system, > where an Atheros wireless network card worked with freeBSD-6.x and not with > 8.0. The network cards also don't work in linux-ubuntu9.?(04 or 10 I can't > remember) with this machine. > > I also noticed when attempting to recompile the kernel with all the ath_* > options switched on that there are conflicting structure definitions with > the ath_rate_* devices - but perhaps this is intentional, I don't know. > Which is as far as I got as my install cd turned to cactus as I attempted to > reinstall with a larger root partition, to fit the compiled kernel. > > When I reinstall I can supply further information as required These are both problems with PCI resource allocation. Can you obtain a verbose dmesg? -- John Baldwin
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