Hi there, I tried installing NetBSD-5 on my netbook last night, an Acer Aspire One, and not all is well. Even though I didn't have any problems at all during installation, once I booted off the (external) harddisk, I'm having problems with either my network adapter, or my keyboard. I get to choose; if I disable ACPI, my ethernet adapter will work just fine but my keyboard won't, if I enable ACPI my keyboard will work, but my ethernet won't. The peculiar thing is that *both* worked at the same time during installation. In both cases, the wireless ethernet adapter won't attach - it might need the same treatment as the Asus EEE. This is the model with an 8GB SSD and originally 512MB RAM (upgraded to 1.5GB since) Dmesg for the interested: (with ACPI) Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. 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NetBSD 5.0_BETA (GENERIC) #0: Thu Dec 18 13:33:50 UTC 2008 builds%b6.netbsd.org@localhost:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5/i386/200812180000Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC total memory = 1523 MB avail memory = 1486 MB timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec RTC BIOS diagnostic error 80<clock_battery> timecounter: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100 Acer AOA110 (1) mainbus0 (root) cpu0 at mainbus0 apid 0: Intel 686-class, 1596MHz, id 0x106c2 cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep (1276 mV) 1600 MHz cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep frequencies available (MHz): 1600 1467 1333 1200 1067 933 800 cpu1 at mainbus0 apid 1: Intel 686-class, 1596MHz, id 0x106c2 ioapic0 at mainbus0 apid 4: pa 0xfec00000, version 20, 24 pins acpi0 at mainbus0: Intel ACPICA 20080321 acpi0: X/RSDT: OemId <ACRSYS,ACRPRDCT,00000001>, AslId < ,01000013> acpi0: SCI interrupting at int 9 acpi0: fixed-feature power button present timecounter: Timecounter "ACPI-Fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 ACPI-Fast 24-bit timer acpibut0 at acpi0 (PWRB, PNP0C0C): ACPI Power Button acpilid0 at acpi0 (LID0, PNP0C0D): ACPI Lid Switch acpibut1 at acpi0 (SLPB, PNP0C0E): ACPI Sleep Button acpibat0 at acpi0 (BAT1, PNP0C0A-0): ACPI Battery (Control Method) acpiacad0 at acpi0 (ACAD, ACPI0003): ACPI AC Adapter hpet0 at acpi0 (HPET, PNP0103) hpet0: mem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff irq 0,8 timecounter: Timecounter "hpet0" frequency 14318179 Hz quality 2000 npx1 at acpi0 (FPU, PNP0C04) npx1: io 0xf0 irq 13 npx1: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 attimer1 at acpi0 (TIMR, PNP0100): AT Timer attimer1: io 0x40-0x43,0x50-0x53 FWHD (INT0800) at acpi0 not configured pckbc1 at acpi0 (KBC, PNP0303): kbd port pckbc1: io 0x60,0x64 irq 1 pckbc2 at acpi0 (MOUE, PNP0F13): aux port pckbc2: irq 12 acpiec0 at acpi0 (EC0, PNP0C09): ACPI Embedded Controller acpiec0: io 0x62,0x66 WMID (PNP0C14) at acpi0 not configured apm0 at acpi0: Power Management spec V1.2 pckbd0 at pckbc1 (kbd slot) pckbc1: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard pms0 at pckbc1 (aux slot) pms0: Synaptics touchpad version 7.2 pms0: Palm detect pckbc1: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, rd/mult, wr/inv ok pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 pchb0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27ac (rev. 0x03) agp0 at pchb0: detected 7932k stolen memory agp0: aperture at 0x60000000, size 0x10000000 vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27ae (rev. 0x03) wsdisplay0 at vga1 kbdmux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0 wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0 drm at vga1 not configured vendor 0x8086 product 0x27a6 (miscellaneous display, revision 0x03) at pci0 dev 2 function 1 not configured azalia0 at pci0 dev 27 function 0: Generic High Definition Audio Controller azalia0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 16 azalia0: host: 0x8086/0x27d8 (rev. 2), HDA rev. 1.0 ppb0 at pci0 dev 28 function 0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27d0 (rev. 0x02) pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled ppb1 at pci0 dev 28 function 1: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27d2 (rev. 0x02) pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 pci2: i/o space, memory space enabled re0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0: RealTek 8100E/8101E/8102E/8102EL PCIe 10/100BaseTX (rev. 0x02) re0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 17 re0: Ethernet address 00:1e:68:8e:f5:da re0: using 256 tx descriptors rlphy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8201L 10/100 media interface, rev. 1 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto ppb2 at pci0 dev 28 function 2: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27d4 (rev. 0x02) pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 pci3: i/o space, memory space enabled ath0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 ath0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 18 ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 13 ppb3 at pci0 dev 28 function 3: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27d6 (rev. 0x02) pci4 at ppb3 bus 4 pci4: i/o space, memory space enabled vendor 0x197b product 0x2382 (miscellaneous system) at pci4 dev 0 function 0 not configured vendor 0x197b product 0x2381 (SD Host Controller system, interface 0x01) at pci4 dev 0 function 2 not configured vendor 0x197b product 0x2383 (miscellaneous system) at pci4 dev 0 function 3 not configured vendor 0x197b product 0x2384 (miscellaneous system) at pci4 dev 0 function 4 not configured uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27c8 (rev. 0x02) uhci0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 16 usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27c9 (rev. 0x02) uhci1: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 17 usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27ca (rev. 0x02) uhci2: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 18 usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhci3 at pci0 dev 29 function 3: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27cb (rev. 0x02) uhci3: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 19 usb3 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0 ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27cc (rev. 0x02) ehci0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 16 ehci0: EHCI version 1.0 ehci0: companion controllers, 2 ports each: uhci0 uhci1 uhci2 uhci3 usb4 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 ppb4 at pci0 dev 30 function 0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x2448 (rev. 0xe2) pci5 at ppb4 bus 5 pci5: i/o space, memory space enabled ichlpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 ichlpcib0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27b9 (rev. 0x02) timecounter: Timecounter "ichlpcib0" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 ichlpcib0: 24-bit timer ichlpcib0: TCO (watchdog) timer configured. piixide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 piixide0: Intel 82801GBM/GHM Serial ATA Controller (ICH7) (rev. 0x02) piixide0: bus-master DMA support present piixide0: primary channel wired to compatibility mode piixide0: primary channel interrupting at ioapic0 pin 14 atabus0 at piixide0 channel 0 piixide0: secondary channel wired to compatibility mode piixide0: secondary channel interrupting at ioapic0 pin 15 atabus1 at piixide0 channel 1 ichsmb0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27da (rev. 0x02) ichsmb0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 17 iic0 at ichsmb0: I2C bus isa0 at ichlpcib0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: PC speaker (CPU-intensive output) sysbeep0 at pcppi0 attimer1: attached to pcppi0 timecounter: Timecounter "clockinterrupt" frequency 100 Hz quality 0 azalia0: codec[0]: Realtek ALC268 (rev. 1.1), HDA rev. 1.0 audio0 at azalia0: full duplex, independent acpiacad0: AC adapter online. wd0 at atabus1 drive 0: <SSDPAMM0008G1EA> wd0: drive supports 1-sector PIO transfers, LBA addressing wd0: 7695 MB, 15636 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 15761088 sectors uhub0 at usb0: vendor 0x8086 UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhub1 at usb1: vendor 0x8086 UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhub2 at usb2: vendor 0x8086 UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhub3 at usb3: vendor 0x8086 UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhub4 at usb4: vendor 0x8086 EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub4: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered wd0: 32-bit data port wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 4 (Ultra/66) wd0(piixide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4 (Ultra/66) (using DMA) acpibat0: battery info: SIMPLO, LION, UM08A72 0B35 acpibat0: battery info: SIMPLO, LION, UM08A72 0B35 umass0 at uhub4 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 umass0: vendor 0x04b4 Cypress AT2LP, rev 2.00/2.40, addr 2 umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus0 at umass0: 2 targets, 1 lun per target sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <WDC WD80, 0BB-00FJA0, 0000> disk fixed sd0: 76319 MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 156301488 sectors uvideo0 at uhub4 port 5 configuration 1 interface 0: SuYin Acer Crystal Eye webcam, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 3 video0 at uvideo0: SuYin Acer Crystal Eye webcam, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 3 Kernelized RAIDframe activated pad0: outputs: 44100Hz, 16-bit, stereo audio1 at pad0: half duplex boot device: sd0 root on sd0a dumps on sd0b root file system type: ffs re0: reset never completed! wsdisplay0: screen 1 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 2 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 3 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 4 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) re0: watchdog timeout re0: reset never completed! Without ACPI: Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. NetBSD 5.0_BETA (GENERIC) #0: Thu Dec 18 13:33:50 UTC 2008 builds%b6.netbsd.org@localhost:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5/i386/200812180000Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-5/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC total memory = 1523 MB avail memory = 1486 MB timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec RTC BIOS diagnostic error 80<clock_battery> timecounter: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100 Acer AOA110 (1) mainbus0 (root) cpu0 at mainbus0: Intel 686-class, 1596MHz, id 0x106c2 cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep (1276 mV) 1600 MHz cpu0: Enhanced SpeedStep frequencies available (MHz): 1600 1467 1333 1200 1067 933 800 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, rd/mult, wr/inv ok pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 pchb0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27ac (rev. 0x03) agp0 at pchb0: detected 7932k stolen memory agp0: aperture at 0x60000000, size 0x10000000 vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27ae (rev. 0x03) wsdisplay0 at vga1 kbdmux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0 drm at vga1 not configured vendor 0x8086 product 0x27a6 (miscellaneous display, revision 0x03) at pci0 dev 2 function 1 not configured azalia0 at pci0 dev 27 function 0: Generic High Definition Audio Controller azalia0: interrupting at irq 11 azalia0: host: 0x8086/0x27d8 (rev. 2), HDA rev. 1.0 ppb0 at pci0 dev 28 function 0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27d0 (rev. 0x02) pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled vendor 0x197b product 0x2382 (miscellaneous system) at pci1 dev 0 function 0 not configured vendor 0x197b product 0x2381 (SD Host Controller system, interface 0x01) at pci1 dev 0 function 2 not configured vendor 0x197b product 0x2383 (miscellaneous system) at pci1 dev 0 function 3 not configured vendor 0x197b product 0x2384 (miscellaneous system) at pci1 dev 0 function 4 not configured ppb1 at pci0 dev 28 function 1: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27d2 (rev. 0x02) pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 pci2: i/o space, memory space enabled re0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0: RealTek 8100E/8101E/8102E/8102EL PCIe 10/100BaseTX (rev. 0x02) re0: interrupting at irq 11 re0: Ethernet address 00:1e:68:8e:f5:da re0: using 256 tx descriptors rlphy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8201L 10/100 media interface, rev. 1 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto ppb2 at pci0 dev 28 function 2: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27d4 (rev. 0x02) pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 pci3: i/o space, memory space enabled ath0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 ath0: interrupting at irq 11 ath0: unable to attach hardware; HAL status 13 ppb3 at pci0 dev 28 function 3: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27d6 (rev. 0x02) pci4 at ppb3 bus 4 pci4: i/o space, memory space enabled vendor 0x197b product 0x2382 (miscellaneous system) at pci4 dev 0 function 0 not configured vendor 0x197b product 0x2381 (SD Host Controller system, interface 0x01) at pci4 dev 0 function 2 not configured vendor 0x197b product 0x2383 (miscellaneous system) at pci4 dev 0 function 3 not configured vendor 0x197b product 0x2384 (miscellaneous system) at pci4 dev 0 function 4 not configured uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27c8 (rev. 0x02) uhci0: interrupting at irq 11 usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27c9 (rev. 0x02) uhci1: interrupting at irq 11 usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27ca (rev. 0x02) uhci2: interrupting at irq 11 usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhci3 at pci0 dev 29 function 3: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27cb (rev. 0x02) uhci3: interrupting at irq 11 usb3 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0 ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27cc (rev. 0x02) ehci0: interrupting at irq 11 ehci0: BIOS has given up ownership ehci0: EHCI version 1.0 ehci0: companion controllers, 2 ports each: uhci0 uhci1 uhci2 uhci3 usb4 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 ppb4 at pci0 dev 30 function 0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x2448 (rev. 0xe2) pci5 at ppb4 bus 5 pci5: i/o space, memory space enabled ichlpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 ichlpcib0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27b9 (rev. 0x02) timecounter: Timecounter "ichlpcib0" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 ichlpcib0: 24-bit timer ichlpcib0: TCO (watchdog) timer configured. piixide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 piixide0: Intel 82801GBM/GHM Serial ATA Controller (ICH7) (rev. 0x02) piixide0: bus-master DMA support present piixide0: primary channel wired to compatibility mode piixide0: primary channel interrupting at irq 14 atabus0 at piixide0 channel 0 piixide0: secondary channel wired to compatibility mode piixide0: secondary channel interrupting at irq 15 atabus1 at piixide0 channel 1 ichsmb0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3: vendor 0x8086 product 0x27da (rev. 0x02) ichsmb0: interrupting at irq 11 iic0 at ichsmb0: I2C bus isa0 at ichlpcib0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pmsattach: disable error attimer0 at isa0 port 0x40-0x43: AT Timer pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: PC speaker (CPU-intensive output) sysbeep0 at pcppi0 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff npx0: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 attimer0: attached to pcppi0 timecounter: Timecounter "clockinterrupt" frequency 100 Hz quality 0 azalia0: codec[0]: Realtek ALC268 (rev. 1.1), HDA rev. 1.0 audio0 at azalia0: full duplex, independent wd0 at atabus1 drive 0: <SSDPAMM0008G1EA> wd0: drive supports 1-sector PIO transfers, LBA addressing wd0: 7695 MB, 15636 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 15761088 sectors uhub0 at usb0: vendor 0x8086 UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhub1 at usb1: vendor 0x8086 UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhub2 at usb2: vendor 0x8086 UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhub3 at usb3: vendor 0x8086 UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhub4 at usb4: vendor 0x8086 EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub4: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered wd0: 32-bit data port wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 4 (Ultra/66) wd0(piixide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4 (Ultra/66) (using DMA) umass0 at uhub4 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 umass0: vendor 0x04b4 Cypress AT2LP, rev 2.00/2.40, addr 2 umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus0 at umass0: 2 targets, 1 lun per target sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <WDC WD80, 0BB-00FJA0, 0000> disk fixed sd0: 76319 MB, 16383 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 156301488 sectors uvideo0 at uhub4 port 5 configuration 1 interface 0: SuYin Acer Crystal Eye webcam, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 3 video0 at uvideo0: SuYin Acer Crystal Eye webcam, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 3 Kernelized RAIDframe activated pad0: outputs: 44100Hz, 16-bit, stereo audio1 at pad0: half duplex boot device: sd0 root on sd0a dumps on sd0b root file system type: ffs wsdisplay0: screen 1 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 2 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 3 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 4 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) uhidev0 at uhub1 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 (after that, my keyboard is dead; plugging in a USB keyboard helps) -- Martijn van Buul - pino%dohd.org@localhost