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

[Michael Grollman]

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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