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    SubjectRe: expresscard hotplug not working
    Mark Lord wrote:
    > Mike Mohr wrote:
    >> Hi,
    >>
    >> I think I'm having a similar problem to the fellow listed here:
    >>
    >> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2007/10/16/344543
    >>
    >> The only difference is that no card will work at all unless it is
    >> inserted before system power is turned on. If the card is removed
    >> while the system is running it stops working and will never return to
    >> life unless the system is rebooted with the card in the slot.
    > ..
    >
    > It's probably the b0rked PCIe hotplug support.
    > The driver is way too strict about things at times,
    > and as a result it doesn't work "out of the box" on
    > a huge number of Dell notebooks (and possibly others).
    >
    > Just create a file called /etc/modprobe.d/pciehp,
    > and stick this one line into it:
    >
    > options pciehp pciehp_force=1
    >
    > See if that works.
    ..

    Oh, one other thing is also needed:
    add a line for pciehp to /etc/modules
    to ensure the driver gets loaded at boot time.

    Cheers


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