ACPI fix not working on my Inspiron 8200

[Daniel J. Wright]

Hello,

  I'm following the directions that I found here:

    http://sandcat.nl/~stijn/freebsd/dell.php

in hopes that I can get my Dell TrueMobile wireless card to start talking
to the base station.  Every time I try to run it, I get errors when I run
the iasl command.  I've confirmed that the errors I get are exactly the
same regardless of wether I apply the patch or not.  Can somebody tell me
what I'm doing wrong?

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kitchkinet# uname -p -r -s
FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT i386
kitchkinet# acpidump -o dell.dsdt > dell.asl
kitchkinet# iasl -d dell.dsdt

Intel ACPI Component Architecture
ASL Optimizing Compiler / AML Disassembler version 20021115 [Jul 30 2003]
Copyright (C) 2000 - 2002 Intel Corporation
Supports ACPI Specification Revision 2.0b

Loading Acpi table from file dell.dsdt
Acpi table [DSDT] successfully installed and loaded
Pass 1 parse
Pass 2 parse
Parsing Deferred Opcodes (Methods/Buffers/Packages/Regions)
..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Parsing completed
Disassembly completed, written to "dell.dsl"
kitchkinet# patch -p0 < dell-dsl.patch
Hmm...  Looks like a unified diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- dell.dsl.orig      Wed May 14 02:07:27 2003
|+++ dell.dsl   Tue May 27 22:18:14 2003
--------------------------
Patching file dell.dsl using Plan A...
Hunk #1 succeeded at 120.
Hunk #2 succeeded at 133.
Hunk #3 succeeded at 153.
Hunk #4 succeeded at 217.
Hunk #5 succeeded at 238.
Hunk #6 succeeded at 277.
done
kitchkinet# iasl dell.dsl

Intel ACPI Component Architecture
ASL Optimizing Compiler / AML Disassembler version 20021115 [Jul 30 2003]
Copyright (C) 2000 - 2002 Intel Corporation
Supports ACPI Specification Revision 2.0b

dell.dsl   346:     Method (STRC, 2, NotSerialized)
Warning  2019 -                ^ Not all control paths return a value (STRC)

dell.dsl   391:                 If (STRC (\_OS, W98S))
Warning  2030 -                        ^ Called method may not always
return a value

dell.dsl   396:                 If (STRC (\_OS, NT5S))
Warning  2030 -                        ^ Called method may not always
return a value

dell.dsl   401:                 If (STRC (\_OS, WINM))
Warning  2030 -                        ^ Called method may not always
return a value

dell.dsl   703:     Method (\_WAK, 1, NotSerialized)
Warning  2026 -                 ^ Reserved method must return a value (_WAK)

dell.dsl  2156:             Field (\_SB.PCI0.ISAB.FDIS, DWordAcc, NoLock,
Preserve)
Error    1047 -                                      ^ Access width is
greater than region size

dell.dsl  2159:                 F0DS,   1,
Error    1051 -                    ^ Access width of Field Unit extends
beyond region limit

dell.dsl  2160:                 F1DS,   1,
Error    1051 -                    ^ Access width of Field Unit extends
beyond region limit

dell.dsl  2161:                 F2DS,   1
Error    1051 -                    ^ Access width of Field Unit extends
beyond region limit

ASL Input:  dell.dsl - 3126 lines, 90544 bytes, 1253 keywords
Compilation complete. 4 Errors, 5 Warnings, 0 Remarks, 397 Optimizations