Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:54:53 +0100 | From | Hans-Jürgen Koch <> | Subject | Re: What's needed for a PCIe card to be recognized? |
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Am Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:39:46 -0800 schrieb Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>:
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:59:32 +0100 > Hans-Jürgen Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> wrote: > > > I'm playing around with a vanilla 2.6.25-rc1, adding patches to make > > it work on an Asus EeePC. That one has the problem that its Mini > > PCIe WLAN module doesn't show up in lspci. That brought up a few > > questions that I couldn't answer yet: > > > > How can they "hide" a PCIe card? > > What could be their motive to do that? > > How can I make it appear? > > > go to the bios, enable the wireless card. > > that did it for me ;)
It didn't for me. I tried all combinations (booting with/without WLAN enabled, enabling WLAN through /proc with/without pciehp loaded and so on). What kernel did you use, and which patches did you apply?
Yes, I want to make it work, but I'd really like to understand what's going on there and what's behind it.
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