kern/143874: [wpi] Wireless 3945ABG error. wpi0 could not allocate memory resource

[Oliver Ebert]

On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:51:36 +0100
Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Thursday 23 December 2010 02:23:04 Oliver Ebert wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:53:30 +0100
> > 
> > Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > On Monday 20 December 2010 12:06:24 Patrick Ale wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Not sure if this is useful information for you but here goes:
> > > > I have exactly the same problem on my Acer Aspire laptop with
> > > > the same network card but then under Solaris 10 and
> > > > Opensolaris, both 64 bit.
> > > > 
> > > > The only way for me to get rid of this error and get the card
> > > > working is to reduce my memory from 4GB to <= 3GB.
> > > > I got told it has to do with the PCI to PCI-X bridge
> > > > masquarading some memory addresses..
> > > > 
> > > > I am not a kernel/driver/code guru but I thought one of you
> > > > might get some pointers out of this..
> > > 
> > > There have been a few changes to PCI bridge code lately which
> > > might well fix that issue. If anyone could give a recent stable/8
> > > or 8.2-BETA a shot, I'd really appreciate that.
> > > 
> > > > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Oliver Ebert
> > > > <oliver.solaris at gmail.com>
> > > 
> > > wrote:
> > > > > The following reply was made to PR kern/143874; it has been
> > > > > noted by GNATS.
> > > > > 
> > > > > From: Oliver Ebert <oliver.solaris at gmail.com>
> > > > > To: Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt at techwires.net>
> > > > > Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
> > > > > Subject: Re: kern/143874: [wpi] Wireless 3945ABG error. wpi0
> > > > > could not allocate memory resource
> > > > > Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 10:39:47 -0600
> > > > > 
> > > > >  On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:49:27 +0100
> > > > >  
> > > > >  Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt at techwires.net> wrote:
> > > > >  > On Sunday 12 September 2010 05:30:10
> > > > >  > oliver.solaris at gmail.com
> > > > >  > 
> > > > >  > wrote:
> > > > >  > > I have the same issue with a Toshiba Satellite P105:
> > > > >  > > 
> > > > >  > > Sep 11 21:46:13  kernel: wpi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless
> > > > >  > > 3945ABG> irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci3
> > > > >  > > Sep 11 21:46:13  kernel: wpi0: Driver Revision 20071127
> > > > >  > > Sep 11 21:46:13  kernel: wpi0: 0x1000 bytes of rid 0x10
> > > > >  > > res 3 failed (0, 0xfffff fff).
> > > > >  > > Sep 11 21:46:13  kernel: wpi0: could not allocate memory
> > > > >  > > resource Sep 11 21:46:13  kernel: device_attach: wpi0
> > > > >  > > attach returned 6
> > > > >  > > 
> > > > >  > > Please let me know if I can help out to track this issue
> > > > >  > > down.
> > > > >  > 
> > > > >  > Is this still an issue on a recent stable/8 or 8.2-BETA1?
> > > > > 
> > > > > 8.2-PRERELEASE
> > > > > 
> > > > >  With 8.1 it is but I didn't had a chance to check with 8.2
> > > > > beta.
> > 
> > I just upgraded to 8.2-PRERELEASE and it seems that the issue is
> > still persistent: Now wlan0 device shows up.
> > 
> > The device is available when booting with ACPI disabled.
> 
> Still same error message?
> 

Yes, I just took a look to the messages:

Dec 23 06:36:50  kernel: wpi0: <Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG> irq 17
at device 0.0 on pci3
Dec 23 06:36:50  kernel: wpi0: Driver Revision 20071127
Dec 23 06:36:50  kernel: pcib2: wpi0 requested unsupported memory range
0-0xffff ffff (decoding 0-0, 0-0)
Dec 23 06:36:50  kernel: wpi0: 0x1000 bytes of rid 0x10 res 3 failed
(0, 0xfffff fff).
Dec 23 06:36:50  kernel: wpi0: could not allocate memory resource
Dec 23 06:36:50  kernel: device_attach: wpi0 attach returned 6

$ kldstat
Id Refs Address    Size     Name
 1   32 0xc0400000 bd9960   kernel
 2    1 0xc0fda000 e760     if_wpi.ko
 3    1 0xc0fe9000 1c260    snd_hda.ko
 4    2 0xc1006000 566f4    sound.ko
 5    1 0xc1066000 2ecb0    vboxdrv.ko
 6    1 0xc636c000 8000     linprocfs.ko
 7    1 0xc6374000 26000    linux.ko
 8    1 0xc6606000 9000     i915.ko
 9    1 0xc661f000 14000    drm.ko


Please let me know if you need more information.



Thanks,



Oliver