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

[mgrollman]

I see what you mean.

Kim-man "Punky" TSE wrote:
> 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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