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

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Message-ID: <47B8AFAA.30101@rtr.ca>
Date:	Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:05:30 -0500
From:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
To:	"Hans J. Koch" <hjk@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What's needed for a PCIe card to be recognized?

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