On 04/20/2011 05:42 PM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
Of course this is HP notebook with WiFi blacklist in BIOS, so putting
another card is not a option.
The HP BIOS allows a small set of PCI IDs. Usually, some Intel cards will be
allowed as well as some Broadcom units.
I asked unitedriders for putting his BCM4311 in another machine. He
has access to some Sony VAIO, but card slot is different (I guess HP
has mini PCI, Sony has mini PCIe).
AFAIR last time I reported such a issue noone got any idea what could
be wrong. But it does not hurt to bring this question once again.
Do you have any ideas other than faulty port or card? Unfortunately
there is not other OS on this machine to test card detection with.
unitedriders mentioned his HP has so called "touch sensive" wlan
switch, but it's unlikely it totally disables PCI port.
Does the BIOS allow the wifi device to be disabled?
If unitedriders has access to any other wifi card that will fit in the slot,
then the BIOS can be used to test the slot. If the other card is recognized,
then the BIOS error message will appear. That will definitely say that the
problem is not the bridge or the PCI adapter. I guess this machine has mini-PCI,
not mini-PCIe.
The only other possibility is that all the hardware is good, but the kernel
cannot drive the bridge to which the BCM4311 is attached. Does the dmesg output
have any indication of this?
Larry
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