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

["Hans-Jürgen Koch" <hjk@linutronix.de>]

Am Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:09:39 -0500
schrieb Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>:

> 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 ...

I know :-) I'll do that as soon as I've got some spare time (very rare
ATM).

> 
> 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.

Admirable. I didn't have that patience ;-)

> 
> >> 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.

I'll give it a try.

Thanks for your hints,
Hans