Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (340 mails)

[Dave Plater <dave.plater@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oddball wrote:
> 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?
>
>   
Firmware update? I had a ralink device hardware detection problem due to
lack of firmware in the past.
Regards
Dave P

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