Re: tlp0: unable to map device registers

["Emery Clark" <emdog4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Emery Clark <emdog4%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I am having problems with a NetBSD install on an old system of mine.
>
> First, I cannot get the operating system to configure my Ethernet
> card. The kernel recognizes it as a "Davicom DM9102A Ethernet" and
> attempts to assign the tlp (Tulip) drivers to the hardware device.
> Although the Tulip drivers seem to be very well known (and compiled
> into the GENERIC kernel?) I cannot configure the device.
>
> Dmesg gives me:
> "tlp0 at pci0 dev 5 function 0: DAvicom DM9102A Ethernet, pass 3.1
> tlp0: unable to map device registers"

Easy fix guys, ACPI. Since I could not find this documented anywhere,
and I know these mailing lists get archived:

To disable ACPI in NetBSD, interrupt the boat loader before it loads
the kernel and pass the option "boot -c". This will bring you to a uc>
configuration line where you can type "disable acpi" it will then
display 'acpi disabled'. type "quit" and the kernel will boot with
ACPI disabled.


Funny because I was looking around in dmesg and I dunno why it didn't
occur to me before but there were a lot of 'etc etc device not
configured'. Once I turned it off, everything booted fine!

Let me ask though, isn't acpi a BIOS setting, not a kernel setting, or
does the kernel control is as well? how does that work?

Shit, NetBSD is great :-)