kern/143874: [wpi] Wireless 3945ABG error. wpi0 could not allocate memory resource

[Oliver Ebert]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:53:30 +0100
Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Monday 20 December 2010 12:06:24 Patrick Ale wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Not sure if this is useful information for you but here goes:
> > I have exactly the same problem on my Acer Aspire laptop with the
> > same network card but then under Solaris 10 and Opensolaris, both
> > 64 bit.
> > 
> > The only way for me to get rid of this error and get the card
> > working is to reduce my memory from 4GB to <= 3GB.
> > I got told it has to do with the PCI to PCI-X bridge masquarading
> > some memory addresses..
> > 
> > I am not a kernel/driver/code guru but I thought one of you might
> > get some pointers out of this..
> 
> There have been a few changes to PCI bridge code lately which might
> well fix that issue. If anyone could give a recent stable/8 or
> 8.2-BETA a shot, I'd really appreciate that.
> 
> > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Oliver Ebert
> > <oliver.solaris at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> > > The following reply was made to PR kern/143874; it has been noted
> > > by GNATS.
> > > 
> > > From: Oliver Ebert <oliver.solaris at gmail.com>
> > > To: Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt at techwires.net>
> > > Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
> > > Subject: Re: kern/143874: [wpi] Wireless 3945ABG error. wpi0
> > > could not allocate memory resource
> > > Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 10:39:47 -0600
> > > 
> > >  On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:49:27 +0100
> > >  Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt at techwires.net> wrote:
> > > 
> > >  > On Sunday 12 September 2010 05:30:10 oliver.solaris at gmail.com
> > >  > wrote:
> > >  > > I have the same issue with a Toshiba Satellite P105:
> > >  > >
> > >  > > Sep 11 21:46:13  kernel: wpi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless
> > >  > > 3945ABG> irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci3
> > >  > > Sep 11 21:46:13  kernel: wpi0: Driver Revision 20071127
> > >  > > Sep 11 21:46:13  kernel: wpi0: 0x1000 bytes of rid 0x10 res
> > >  > > 3 failed (0, 0xfffff fff).
> > >  > > Sep 11 21:46:13  kernel: wpi0: could not allocate memory
> > >  > > resource Sep 11 21:46:13  kernel: device_attach: wpi0 attach
> > >  > > returned 6
> > >  > >
> > >  > > Please let me know if I can help out to track this issue
> > >  > > down.
> > >  >
> > >  > Is this still an issue on a recent stable/8 or 8.2-BETA1?
> > >  >
> > > 8.2-PRERELEASE
> > >  With 8.1 it is but I didn't had a chance to check with 8.2 beta.
> 

I just upgraded to 8.2-PRERELEASE and it seems that the issue is still
persistent: Now wlan0 device shows up.

The device is available when booting with ACPI disabled.