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

[Mark Lord]

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 ...

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.

> > 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.
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