Ben Gamari wrote: > Hey all, > > I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 for which I recently purchased a StarTech > ExpressCard (supported by sata_sil24) eSATA adapter. Unfortunately, I found > that the machine did not give the slightest acknowledgement of the card upon > plugging it in. After doing some research, I tried the often suggested > pciehp.pciehp_force=1 kernel parameter, as well as the acpiphp module. Even > when the machine was booted with the card in place, lspci gave no > acknowledgement of the card. I then tried the same card on my Dell Latitude > D830 and found that the card was immediately functional. Thus, it seems likely > that something is going badly wrong in the case of the Inspiron. Any ideas? > > I've included the appropriate machine details below, although I have probably > missed something. I can reproduce the issue with both 2.6.31 and 2.6.32 > kernels (both stock Ubuntu and vanilla personal builds). Any ideas would be > greatly appreciated. > > Thanks! > > - Ben > Check the BIOS. My (Latitude E6500) Dell laptop has an enable/disable for the eSATA slot. -Don -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
