ACPI support?

[Krassimir Slavchev]

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Hi,

Thanks for your reply!

Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:12:05 +0200
> Krassimir Slavchev <krassi at bulinfo.net> wrote:
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>> Hello All,
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>> I have had a problem detecting the network card on my notebook when
>> ACPI is enabled for a year. The problem still exists in 7.1-RELEASE.
> 
> Which make and model notebook is this?
> 
Acer Aspire 5920G

> You have my sympaties, my own laptop[1] (Acer Aspire 5672) have the same
> sort of problem - drivers for NICs (both wired and wireless) will not
> attach if acpi is enabled. And this laptop gets too hot when acpi is
> disabled - I fear it will overheat. Linux runs fine[2] on it.
>

same

> I had a lot of help in trying to fix the problem a wbile back (check
> the freebsd-mobile mailing list archives), but in the end, nothing
> helped.

I have found that thread.

> 
>  I can only offer general advice, not a solution. Try too look for
> a modfified DSDT for your notebook, perhpas you will find something
> that helps.
> 
> References:
> 1) http://tingox.googlepages.com/aceraspireas5672andfreebsd
> 2) http://tingox.googlepages.com/as5672_xubuntu

Modifying the DSDT was the first thing I tried a year ago but nothing.

The problem may be with allocating resources by ACPI PCI-PCI bridge.
There is a way to set needed values:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-acpi/2008-May/004905.html

I am still not sure where is the exact problem! Whether something is
wrong with ACPI PCI-PCI bridge or ACPI does not offer these resources?

I would like to work on this and any help is welcome

Best Regards
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