Acer Aspire 5672 laptop and FreeBSD 8.0-stable

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

This is just a FYI,

I have an Acer Aspire 5672 laptop[1], which mainly runs Xubuntu, because FreeBSD doesn't work very well on it. From time to time, I test it with FreeBSD to see if the situation has improved.
The results for FreeBSD 8.0-stable are now in[2].

What can I say?

The only way I can get network interfaces (bge, wpi) working is by disabling acpi. However, I can't run the laptop with acpi disabled for longer periods of time, because it will overheat.
If acpi is enabled, and I kldload if_wpi the machine panics (page fault).

In short, this particular laptop doesn't work very well with FreeBSD.

References:
1) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/as5672
2) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/aceraspireas5672andfreebsd
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Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen