[Voyage-linux] pcmcia modem module not in voyage kernel

[mgrollman]

I see a link on the download area new today for 
http://www.voyage.hk/download/voyage-base/voyage-base.etch.tar.gz.  
Can't wait to play around with this fellow a bit.
Does this guy come with a kernel with a serial_cs module already built 
in a module?  Do you think he will be making it happen with udev as well?

- Michael

Michael Grollman wrote:
> Is moving this to "etch" a major task?  Sure kicked me around a little.
>
> - Michael
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kim-man "Punky" TSE [mailto:punkytse at punknix.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 7:54 PM
> To: Michael Grollman
> Cc: 'Nick Rout'; voyage-linux at voyage.hk
> Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] pcmcia modem module not in voyage kernel
>
> Hi all,
>
> I also noticed that pcmcia-cs was depreciated before 0.2 is released.  
> For newer 2.6 kernel, a new pcmcia util is needed.  I think I would need 
> to move to Debian testing (etch) to minimize work on backporting the 
> packages.  This will automatically add udev support as well.
>
> Punky
>
> Michael Grollman wrote:
>   
>> I would be very interested to hear on it comes out for your friend.  I
>>     
> tried
>   
>> for some time to do a kernel rebuild to get an Aircard 750 PCMCIA modem
>> running, and did not have a great deal of luck (at least not yet).  Part
>>     
> of
>   
>> the issue was serial_cs, but there are some other items regarding PCMCIA
>> devices that changed (broke?) around 2.6.13, and remain somewhat
>> problematic, from what I can tell, with certain serial PCMCIA modem cards,
>> since the pcmcia-cs package is depreciated.  Mostly they seem to related
>>     
> to
>   
>> the firmware auto-loading toolset changing, from what I could tell.  The
>>     
> new
>   
>> stuff is based on PCMCIAutils, and loads firmware w/o pcmcia-cs.  Some
>>     
> info
>   
>> on how this change impacts PCMCIA devices such as serial modems can be
>>     
> found
>   
>> at: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html.  PCMCIA
>> modems cards based on the USB paradigm seem to work with existing voyage
>> kernel.
>>
>> - Michael
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: voyage-linux-bounces+mgrollman=cox.net at list.voyage.hk
>> [mailto:voyage-linux-bounces+mgrollman=cox.net at list.voyage.hk] On Behalf
>>     
> Of
>   
>> Nick Rout
>> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 7:34 PM
>> To: voyage-linux at voyage.hk
>> Subject: [Voyage-linux] pcmcia modem module not in voyage kernel
>>
>> Recommended voyage to a friend who wants to run his pcmcia modem on it.
>> It needs the serial_cs module, which didn't seem to be in the voyage
>> kernel. I have made him a kernel package with it in, and waiting to
>> hear back from him that it works. I just thought you might like to know
>> that this option is useful to some people. The kernel config setting is:
>>
>> SERIAL_8250_CS
>>
>> I set it to m for module.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
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