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Message-ID: <20080218000312.0b38efd5@dilbert.local>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:03:12 +0100
From: Hans-Jürgen Koch <hjk@...utronix.de>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>
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?
Am Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:09:39 -0500
schrieb Mark Lord <lkml@....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
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