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

[mgrollman]

Punky,

The new experiential kernel you built below (3.01) does a nice job at 
loading the serial_cs module for the particular PCMCIA modem I am testing:

    cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: excluding 0xa0000000-0xa00fffff
    pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
    cardmgr[1777]: socket 0: Sierra Wireless AC850 3G Network Adapter R1


I still have a few issues to work out on my own, including what follows:

    cardmgr[1777]: executing: 'modprobe serial_cs'
    serial_cs: serial8250_register_port() at 0x03e8, irq 11 failed
    cardmgr[1777]: get dev info on socket 0 failed: No such device


But my real question about the new experimental kernel is, that my ath0 
support seems to have gone away (aetheros madwifi, which worked very 
well in the stock voyage 2.0 kernel I used before).  I now get something 
like this on an ifup ath0:

    ifup ath0
    run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/madwifi exited with return code 1
    Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
        SET failed on device ath0 ; No such device.
    SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
    ath0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
    SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
    SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device
    ath0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
    ath0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
    Failed to bring up ath0.


Do I need to change out some madwifi tools to make it happen with this 
kernel?

- Michael


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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