Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:05:30 -0500 | | From | Mark Lord <> | | Subject | Re: What's needed for a PCIe card to be recognized? |
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Hans J. Koch wrote: > Am Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:29:27 -0800 > schrieb Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>: > >> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:37:53 +0100 >> "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@linutronix.de> wrote: >>>> Of course there's no driver for the wlan, but that's a different >>>> story ;) >>> I replaced that unsupported Atheros 5007 card with an ipw3945, so I >>> haven't got that problem. >> oh but then you have a MUCH bigger problem ;( >> The bios of that animal is hardcoded to the 5007 (or at least >> Atheros). If you stick your own card in, for FCC reasons, the bios >> refuses the card. ..
s/FCC/brand protection by Atheros/
> Really? Unbelievable what these guys do to make my live harder... > So, they might use some undocumented GPIO to turn the power on, and > refuse that if they don't find the original card? Looks like I can't > have WLAN on an EeePC (I won't run a tainted kernel). Stupid thing to > sell a PC with Linux preinstalled but with hardware not supported in > mainline. ..
Try it again with 2.6.25-rc2 and this module option:
options pciehp pciehp_force=1
Just a thin hope, really, but it might work.
Cheers
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