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

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:54:53 +0100
Hans-JÃrgen Koch <hjk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Am Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:39:46 -0800
> schrieb Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> > 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 ;)
> 
> 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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