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

[Michael Grollman]

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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