atheros issues with releng_8

[John Baldwin]

On Monday 21 December 2009 9:23:47 pm Zane C. B. wrote:
> With the GENERIC kernel on releng_8 and releng_8_0, I am having
> issues with the Atheros wireless on my laptop.
> 
> Upon boot I am getting the message below.
> 
> ath0: <Atheros 5424/2424> irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci3
> ath0: 0x10000 bytes of rid 0x10 res 3 failed (0, 0xffffffff).
> ath0: cannot map register space
> device_attach: ath0 attach returned 6
> 
> Any suggestions? It was working fine on releng_6.

You can try disabling ACPI.  I have seen ACPI clear BARs in other devices 
before and FreeBSD doesn't cope well with cleared BARs.

-- 
John Baldwin