ACPI problems with Dell laptops

[Chris Howells]

On Sunday 27 November 2005 11:50, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> Since then I've also discovered that the builtin wireless card doesn't
> work either.  It's:
>
>   iwi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2915ABG> mem 0xdfcfd000-0xdfcfdfff irq 10 at
> device 3.0 on pci3 iwi0: Ethernet address: 00:13:ce:46:28:49

<snip>

>   DHCPDISCOVER on iwi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
>   DHCPDISCOVER on iwi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
>   send_packet: Network is down
>
> On the console I get the detailed error message:
>
>   iwi0: fatal error

iwi(4) is unfortunately pretty unstable so I'm not sure if it's directly 
related to the ACPI problems.

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