Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:03:12 +0100 | | From | Hans-Jürgen Koch <> | | Subject | Re: What's needed for a PCIe card to be recognized? |
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Am Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:09:39 -0500 schrieb Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>:
> Mark Lord wrote: > > Hans J. Koch wrote: > .. > >> Really? Unbelievable what these guys do to make my live harder... > >> So, they might use some undocumented GPIO to turn the power on, and > ... > > GPIO lines are not usually very difficult to trace, > and programming them is pretty easy, too ...
I know :-) I'll do that as soon as I've got some spare time (very rare ATM).
> > If I had an EeePC here, I'd do that for you (and everyone else), > but I'm waiting for a lower-power (fanless) unit to be introduced > first.
Admirable. I didn't have that patience ;-)
> > >> 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.
I'll give it a try.
Thanks for your hints, Hans
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