ASUS U5F hangs during pci bus probe

[Yuriy Tsibizov]

> > Just checked it today morning - it cannot start Ethernet 
> adapter after
> > last reboot...
> > It lists it in POST message, but
> > 1) don't start PXE firmware
> > 2) can't see it with pre-installed Windows (It show unknown 
> Ethernet,
> > with vendor 10ec dev 8129 subsys 812911ec revision 01). 
> It's PCI express
> > network card, according to POST message.
> > 3) link is active
> > 
> > I have two more noteboks (same model),  but don't want to kill their
> > Ethernet adapters.
> 
> So, are you saying that after using the fixed patch, booting into
> FreeBSD (getting to login), that the Windows no longer attached to the
> on board ethernet adapter?  Considering that this patch doesn't even
> touch the read-write data, I can't imagine it breaking 
> something, unless
> the driver and other code can't handle the VPD registers 
> being touched...
> But if that's the case, then the Windows driver needs to be 
> fixed since
> there are no guaranties what the VPD registers will be...

how can THIS change?
(it's a diff against other ASUS U5F notebook)

--- good-pciconf        2006-10-19 14:36:53.135431000 +0400
+++ broken-pciconf      2006-10-19 14:36:37.619607400 +0400
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 atapci0 at pci0:31:2:     class=0x010180 card=0x12671043 chip=0x27c48086
rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
     class    = mass storage
     subclass = ATA
-re0 at pci1:0:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x11f51043 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x01
hdr=0x00
+rl0 at pci1:0:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x812911ec chip=0x812910ec rev=0x01
hdr=0x00
     class    = network
     subclass = ethernet
 none1 at pci2:0:0:        class=0x028000 card=0x10018086 chip=0x42228086
rev=0x02 hdr=0x00

verbose dmes & pciconf are available from
http://chibis.persons.gfk.ru/vpd/

Yuriy.