Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:18:17 -0400 | From | Mark Lord <> | Subject | Re: expresscard hotplug not working |
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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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