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

[Kim-man "Punky" TSE]

Michael

voyage-base.etch.tar.gz is just a bootstrapped version of etch, it is 
not voyage and is not ready to use.

An experimental kernel with serial_cs module can be found in 
http://alpha.voyage.hk/contrib/punkytse/test-kernel/

Punky

mgrollman wrote:
> 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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>>>       
>>
>>
>>   


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