Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (340 mails)

[Oddball <monkey9@xxxxxx>]

Herbert Graeber schreef:
> I have found another important thing I have done for my eeepc. WLAN modules 
> are anebled/disabled by hotplugging them. But the BIOS doesn't tell this via 
> ACPI. So one has to force the load of module pciehp. I do this with a 
> /etc/modprobe.d/eeepc file:
>
>       options pciehp pciehp_force=1
>       install eeepc-laptop /sbin/modprobe pciehp; /sbin/modprobe -i 
> eeepc-laptop 
> $CMDLINE_ARGS
>
> The reason for doing it this way is, that the cahnge to the system is 
> isolated 
> to one single file. It is easier to make a rpm when on can install an 
> additional file, than modifying an existing one. Another reason is, that the 
> first line of this file is needed anyway.
>
>   
What should happen when creating this file is that the rt2860 would be
loaded, so it could be detected, or do i understand this wrong here?
I did create the file, but how to get it read?
Because still no hw-info on rt2860, according to yast2 networksettings.
Why does one kernel find the wifi, and another one does not?

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Oddball aka M9.

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