Activate PCIe slot deactivated by BIOS

[Dominic Fandrey]

On 22/05/2010 13:47, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> Today the card arrived and the BIOS complains (HP 6510b):
> 	104-Unsupported wireless network device detected.
> 	System halted. Remove device and restart.
> 
> The system boots if I turn off the wireless device in BIOS, but
> this means I cannot use it.
> 
> Now, I could just get a BIOS image and exchange the device IDs
> there. But I wonder, wouldn't it be easier to just reactivate the
> PCIe slot through the OS?

This e-mail is written through the ath wireless I got:

# ifconfig
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
	ether 00:24:2c:1d:f0:2f
	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g
	status: associated
...
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
	ether 00:24:2c:1d:f0:2f
	inet 192.168.178.41 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.178.255
	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/36Mbps mode 11g
	status: associated
	ssid "Obi-Wan Kenobi" channel 7 (2442 MHz 11g) bssid 00:15:0c:d5:37:a0
	regdomain 101 indoor ecm authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON
	deftxkey UNDEF AES-CCM 2:128-bit txpower 20 bmiss 7 scanvalid 450
	bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7 roam:rate 5
	protmode CTS wme burst roaming MANUAL

I achieved this by passing the BIOS check with the intel wireless and
hot-swapping it with the atheros card afterwards. This is impractical
and evil, so I'm still searching for a solution.

But at least I know that the device works.

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