Re: What's needed for a PCIe card to be recognized?

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sat Feb 16 2008 - 17:40:22 EST


On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:59:32 +0100
Hans-JÃrgen Koch <hjk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 ;)


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