From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755492AbYBQWFm (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:05:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753011AbYBQWFd (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:05:33 -0500 Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:4920 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752696AbYBQWFc (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:05:32 -0500 Message-ID: <47B8AFAA.30101@rtr.ca> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:05:30 -0500 From: Mark Lord Organization: Real-Time Remedies Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Hans J. Koch" Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: What's needed for a PCIe card to be recognized? 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> In-Reply-To: <20080217174728.76e4231a@bluebox.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hans J. Koch wrote: > 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. .. 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