From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757510AbYBQXDe (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:03:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754217AbYBQXD0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:03:26 -0500 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:44145 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754103AbYBQXDZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:03:25 -0500 Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:03:12 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?B?SGFucy1Kw7xyZ2Vu?= Koch To: Mark Lord Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: What's needed for a PCIe card to be recognized? Message-ID: <20080218000312.0b38efd5@dilbert.local> In-Reply-To: <47B8B0A3.2070005@rtr.ca> 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> <20080217174728.76e4231a@bluebox.local> <47B8AFAA.30101@rtr.ca> <47B8B0A3.2070005@rtr.ca> Organization: Linutronix X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.12.2; 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 17:09:39 -0500 schrieb 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 ... 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