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

[Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>]

Hans J. Koch wrote:
> Am Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:29:27 -0800
> schrieb Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>:
> 
>> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:37:53 +0100
>> "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@linutronix.de> 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.
..

s/FCC/brand protection by Atheros/

> 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.
..

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.

Cheers