On Thursday, September 23, 2010 12:08:40 pm Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:46:43 -0500 > Jim Bryant <kc5vdj.free...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > One (this one) has an intel pro wireless 3945ABG installed, which returns: > > > > wpi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG> irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci6 > > wpi0: Driver Revision 20071127 > > wpi0: 0x1000 bytes of rid 0x10 res 3 failed (0, 0xffffffffffffffff). > > wpi0: could not allocate memory resource > > device_attach: wpi0 attach returned 6 > > > > and the broadcom used in the other does the exact same thing. > > > > I'm thinking that this isn't really a problem with the wifi, but may be > > a mini-pci-e issue. > > More likelely, it is ACPI-related. Simply put: many laptops have > broken ACPI implementations. Other OS'es might have a workaround for > them, but FreeBSD does not.
Well, in this case the breakage is probably that something in the ACPI initialization clears the resource ranges in a PCI-PCI bridge. However, I would not quite say that ACPI is broken in that case as FreeBSD's PCI-PCI bridge driver needs to handle this sort of case anyway in order to truly handle hotplug devices and 'PNP OS == YES', so this is really FreeBSD's fault rather than ACPI or the BIOS. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
