ACPI breaks network, old AMD K6, just FYI

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 15 January 2008 04:31:26 pm Michael Ross wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i just installed 7.0-RC1 on an old AMD K6 machine,
> and enabling ACPI breaks networking.
> 
> Trying to access anything but localhost, tcpdump does not see any packets  
> at all.
> Pinging a LAN machine leads to "sendo: no buffer space available" after  
> about 100 packets.
> 
> Part of dmesg follows.
> As mentioned in the subject, this is just FYI, I can run the machine fine  
> with ACPI turned off.
> 
> Jan 15 20:02:01 montana kernel: acpi0: <AWARD AWRDACPI> on motherboard
> Jan 15 20:02:01 montana kernel: acpi0: [ITHREAD]
> Jan 15 20:02:01 montana kernel: acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
> Jan 15 20:02:01 montana kernel: ACPI Error (dsopcode-0671): Field [IRQL]  
> at 208 exceeds Buffer [BUF0] size 192 (bits) [20070320]
> Jan 15 20:02:01 montana kernel: ACPI Error (psparse-0626): Method  
> parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.FDC0._CRS] (Node 0xc1bb8d40),  
> AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT
> Jan 15 20:02:01 montana kernel: ACPI Error (uteval-0309): Method execution  
> failed [\_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.FDC0._CRS] (Node 0xc1bb8d40), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT
> Jan 15 20:02:01 montana kernel: can't fetch resources for  
> \_SB_.PCI0.ISA_.FDC0 - AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT
> Jan 15 20:02:01 montana kernel: acpi0: reservation of 0, a0000 (3) failed
> Jan 15 20:02:01 montana kernel: acpi0: reservation of 100000, 7ef0000 (3)  
> failed
> Jan 15 20:02:01 montana kernel: Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545  
> Hz quality 850
> Jan 15 20:02:01 montana kernel: acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz>  
> port 0x4008-0x400b on acpi0
> Jan 15 20:02:01 montana kernel: cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
> Jan 15 20:02:01 montana kernel: acpi_throttle0: <ACPI CPU Throttling> on  
> cpu0
> Jan 15 20:02:01 montana kernel: acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
> Jan 15 20:02:01 montana kernel: pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port  
> 0xcf8-0xcff,0x4000-0x407f,0x4080-0x40ff,0x5000-0x500f on acpi0
> Jan 15 20:02:01 montana kernel: pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0

Is your network device getting interrupts (vmstat -i)?

-- 
John Baldwin