Re: Broadcom NIC not recognized by FreeBSD?

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:38:06 -0400
On Friday 12 June 2009 12:09:39 am Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:42:50AM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> > 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.

-- 
John Baldwin
Received on Fri Jun 12 2009 - 10:59:23 UTC

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