acpi is broken since about 2004/12/01

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 14 December 2004 11:02 am, Ted Lindgreen wrote:
> Maksim Yevmenkin reported the problem already on Mon Dec 6 15:15:28 in
> "help! acpi kills my laptop", and also Andrey Chernovache reported
> it on Thu Dec 9 09:13:58 in "Lots of ACPI warnings with recent -current".
>
> Disabling acpi, or using an older acpi.ko (from november 29) makes
> my laptop bootable again, but the wifi card does not work anymore.
> The message is: "load the wlan_web module by hand for now", however,
> loading it does not help (the pccard remains dead).
>
> I tried backing out acpi_pci_link.c version 1.39 but that does not help.
>
> Is anyone looking into this problem currently? (If not I'll continue
> digging into it, but I guess that the people working on acpi do a better
> and quicker job finding and fixing this problem).

The ACPI issue is being worked on by njl at .  I think he found the actual bug in 
Intel's ACPI-CA and is waiting for feedback on his suggested fix.

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