xl and wifi card on 1.2 release

Wed Apr 20 10:53:23 PDT 2005

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 07:31:00PM +0200, Jonathan Buschmann wrote:
> I've just installed DragonFlyBSD 1.2 Release on my DELL Inspiron 8200. 
> But the xl driver seems partially broken.
> 
> At first when i boot with ACPI enabled and after configuring the network 
>  i've got many messages "livelocked! ..".

Hi,
currently known workaround for "Inspiron + ACPI + xl + livelock" problem
on -RELEASE is to type the following commands at the boot loader prompt:

set debug.acpi.avoid=give_my_wifi_back
boot