Problem network devices Acer Extensa 5635G

[John Baldwin]

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