Acer Aspire 5672 laptop and FreeBSD 8.0-stable

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

Update:
I have now tested this laptop[1] with FreeBSD 8.2-stable[2].
The results are the same as when it was tested with 8.0-stable.
It still needs patching of the PCIe code to get network interfaces to work.
I used a patch[3] made by Alexander Motin for a different machine, amd even if the seconfd hunk of the patch was rejected,
the wireless interface (wpi0) works.

On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:26:15 +0100
Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> wrote:

> 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
> -- 
> Regards,
> Torfinn Ingolfsen
> 
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References:
1) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/as5672
2) http://sites.google.com/site/tingox/aceraspireas5672andfreebsd
3) http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/tm6292_pcie.patch
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen