From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756338AbYBQQrn (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:47:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752908AbYBQQrf (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:47:35 -0500 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:49645 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752806AbYBQQre (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:47:34 -0500 Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:47:28 +0100 From: "Hans J. Koch" To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: What's needed for a PCIe card to be recognized? Message-ID: <20080217174728.76e4231a@bluebox.local> In-Reply-To: <20080217072927.4b6c5964@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <20080216225932.22460d31@dilbert.local> <20080216143946.6d532a41@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20080217015453.2a4e4142@dilbert.local> <20080216182939.061c7246@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20080217133753.661cd98d@bluebox.local> <20080217072927.4b6c5964@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Organization: Linutronix GmbH X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.0.1 (GTK+ 2.12.0; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:29:27 -0800 schrieb Arjan van de Ven : > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:37:53 +0100 > "Hans J. Koch" wrote: > > > Of course there's no driver for the wlan, but that's a different > > > story ;) > > > > I replaced that unsupported Atheros 5007 card with an ipw3945, so I > > haven't got that problem. > > oh but then you have a MUCH bigger problem ;( > The bios of that animal is hardcoded to the 5007 (or at least > Atheros). If you stick your own card in, for FCC reasons, the bios > refuses the card. Really? Unbelievable what these guys do to make my live harder... So, they might use some undocumented GPIO to turn the power on, and 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. Thanks, Hans