[SLE] sierra wireless aircard 860 problems
Hi,
I've been unable to get the Sierra Wireless PCMCIA AirCard 860 (GSM/GPRS data card) working on a desktop running Suse 10.1 (2.6.16.13-4-smp).
I've used a PCMCIA to PCI Interface Card Drive.
The card is detected, with ttyS1 (assigned IRQ=201) but the UART displays "unknown" and I am unable to use minicom.
NOTE: I was able to get the card working on IBM ThinkPad R51 with Suse 10.1.
# dmesg
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:05:00.0 [0000:0000]
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel 915G Chipset.
agpgart: Detected 7932K stolen memory.
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0x20000000
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0000, PCI irq 201
Socket status: 30000006
# setserial -av /dev/ttyS1
/dev/ttyS1, Line 1, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 201
Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
closing_wait: 3000
Flags: spd_normal skip_test
# lspci -vv
05:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 kvl.ramarao@oneconvergence.com wrote:
Hi,
I've been unable to get the Sierra Wireless PCMCIA AirCard 860 (GSM/GPRS data card) working on a desktop running Suse 10.1 (2.6.16.13-4-smp). I've used a PCMCIA to PCI Interface Card Drive. The card is detected, with ttyS1 (assigned IRQ=201) but the UART displays "unknown" and I am unable to use minicom. NOTE: I was able to get the card working on IBM ThinkPad R51 with Suse 10.1.
When you plug in the card to the PCMCIA slot and do a cat /var/log/messages | grep tty do yoy see that the card is actually assigned to to it. Mine says kernel: 0.0: ttyS1 at I/O 0x47f8 (irq =3) is a 16550A Just from what little I know from beating my head on this same card... It doesn't look like the aircard has been recognized, but your bridge has been. I did find out AFTER I bought the PCMCIA bridge that the Quatech one does not work with the aircard... So I have it working on the laptop but not the desktop until I get a new bridge.. Did you use the .cis file and make the change to serial_cs.c ? Hope this helps Adolph -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEtXEHlC+PSm9+eB0RAgIGAJ9jpbdUwSxcJ9FUeTEphc4mGzTmyACgnZI8 HCYtXPIQp7KSraTFZp3bH2k= =010P -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Adolph & Sharon Weidanz wrote:
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kvl.ramarao@oneconvergence.com wrote:
Hi,
I've been unable to get the Sierra Wireless PCMCIA AirCard 860 (GSM/GPRS data card) working on a desktop running Suse 10.1 (2.6.16.13-4-smp). I've used a PCMCIA to PCI Interface Card Drive. The card is detected, with ttyS1 (assigned IRQ=201) but the UART displays "unknown" and I am unable to use minicom. NOTE: I was able to get the card working on IBM ThinkPad R51 with Suse 10.1.
When you plug in the card to the PCMCIA slot and do a cat /var/log/messages | grep tty do yoy see that the card is actually assigned to to it. Mine says kernel: 0.0: ttyS1 at I/O 0x47f8 (irq =3) is a 16550A
This message is not coming, when trying on desktop. But able to see this message on Laptop.
Just from what little I know from beating my head on this same card... It doesn't look like the aircard has been recognized, but your bridge has been. I did find out AFTER I bought the PCMCIA bridge that the Quatech one does not work with the aircard... So I have it working on the laptop but not the desktop until I get a new bridge..
Did you use the .cis file and make the change to serial_cs.c ?
Yes
Hope this helps
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 RamaRao wrote:
Adolph & Sharon Weidanz wrote: kvl.ramarao@oneconvergence.com wrote:
Hi,
I've been unable to get the Sierra Wireless PCMCIA AirCard 860 (GSM/GPRS data card) working on a desktop running Suse 10.1 (2.6.16.13-4-smp). I've used a PCMCIA to PCI Interface Card Drive. The card is detected, with ttyS1 (assigned IRQ=201) but the UART displays "unknown" and I am unable to use minicom. NOTE: I was able to get the card working on IBM ThinkPad R51 with Suse 10.1.
When you plug in the card to the PCMCIA slot and do a cat /var/log/messages | grep tty do yoy see that the card is actually assigned to to it. Mine says kernel: 0.0: ttyS1 at I/O 0x47f8 (irq =3) is a 16550A
This message is not coming, when trying on desktop. But able to see this message on Laptop. Just from what little I know from beating my head on this same card... It doesn't look like the aircard has been recognized, but your bridge has been. I did find out AFTER I bought the PCMCIA bridge that the Quatech one does not work with the aircard... So I have it working on the laptop but not the desktop until I get a new bridge..
Unfortunately, I haven't gotten any further on this problem. I ended up doing internet forwarding through the laptop. There are a couple of cards that are supposed to work with the aircard. IIRC there is one from elan, but it was $200 or so. One thing I did notice while playing around was that udev seemed to pick it up: Jun 24 11:57:38 Paws-1 udevd-event[7292]: udev_rules_get_name: rule applied, 'ttyS2' becomes 'ttyS2' Jun 24 11:57:38 Paws-1 udevd-event[7292]: create_node: creating device node '/dev/ttyS2', major = '4', minor = '66', mode = '0660', uid = '0', gid = '14' But that's as far as I got.... If you find out anything I would appreciate it if you could email me, off list even... It would be nice to figure it out... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEuOnglC+PSm9+eB0RApx7AJ93l8iYkMkWkCC6OJ33jdZUYhm8ZQCeP8/2 q34vpmqfSH0XqX35AziYEIU= =yyXE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
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Adolph & Sharon Weidanz
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kvl.ramarao@oneconvergence.com
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