Broadcom NIC not recognized by FreeBSD?
David Christensen
davidch at broadcom.com
Fri Jun 12 18:02:01 UTC 2009
> > > The bge driver recognizes the controller but fails to get the
> > > adapter's BAR memory mapped by the OS. Since it's only
> requesting
> > > 64KB it sounds like an OS issue. If you remove any other PCI
> > > devices in the system does the bge driver load?
> >
> > I cannot remove any devices from the system.
> > The problem is occurring on an Acer Aspire 5920 laptop with no
> > external devices plugged into it.
>
> You can try disabling ACPI. On some machines ACPI
> initialization inexpicably clears the I/O windows in certain
> PCI-PCI bridges and FreeBSD does not cope well with this case.
Does that apply to memory windows too? The device doesn't support
legacy I/O, only memory mapped registers.
Dave
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