And maybe game with acpidump and ASL may help you. I read about situations when just changing Windows word for Linux in ASL helped in some cases. I don't no so much about it, but maybe you will get some idea and points from this text http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-debug.html
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Anathae E. Townsend <atowns...@nucleus.com> wrote: > The one difference on your machine between 4.4 and 4.5/4.6 is apm vs acpi > > If you used the boot prompt to disable acpi, do you have access to the > network card again? > > Anathae > > p.s. taking a wild shot in the dark.