Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:29:39 -0800 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: What's needed for a PCIe card to be recognized? |
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On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:54:53 +0100 Hans-Jürgen Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> wrote:
> 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? >
I used a pretty much stock Fedora 8 kernel.. no magic patches at all. Of course there's no driver for the wlan, but that's a different story ;)
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