pcmcia modem, titanium 667, YDL 2.2, 2.4 kernel

John & Trudy Phillips yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon May 27 05:54:01 2002


On Sun, 26 May 2002, Stan Cook wrote:
> 
> Because of the "software modem" problem on the G4, and because I
> absolutely need to have "dial out" capability, I have borrowed, with
> intent to purchase, a "Global Pillage" 56K pcmcia modem card.
>  
> What I want to know is:
> 1- Has anyone got a working PCMCIA modem card in their Tibook?

  Yes, TelePath Combo-XJEM3336, taken from an old Gateway laptop

> 2- If you have, what DEVICE is it being assigned, and what module is
> being loaded? It used to be serial-cs.o (or serial_cs.o)? 

  serial_cs.o

Here is my setup:

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Output to /var/log/messages ----------------------------------------

May 27 07:45:09 tilaptop cardmgr[1907]: initializing socket 0
May 27 07:45:09 tilaptop cardmgr[1907]: socket 0: Gateway Telepath 
Ethernet/Modem
May 27 07:45:09 tilaptop cardmgr[1907]: executing: 'modprobe smc91c92_cs'
May 27 07:45:09 tilaptop cardmgr[1907]: executing: 'modprobe serial_cs'
May 27 07:45:09 tilaptop kernel: Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) 
                              with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
May 27 07:45:09 tilaptop kernel: eth1: smc91c94 rev 1: io 0x300, irq 58, 
                                       hw_addr 00:00:86:17:5B:79
May 27 07:45:09 tilaptop kernel:   4608 byte buffer, auto xcvr
May 27 07:45:09 tilaptop kernel: ttyS00 at port 0x03f8 (irq = 58) is a 
16550A
May 27 07:45:09 tilaptop cardmgr[1907]: executing: './network start eth1'
May 27 07:45:09 tilaptop modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4
May 27 07:45:09 tilaptop cardmgr[1907]: executing: './serial start ttyS0'
May 27 07:45:10 tilaptop modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4
May 27 07:45:10 tilaptop cardmgr[1907]: exiting

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/etc/sysconfig/pcmcia ----------------------------------------------

PCMCIA=yes
PCIC=yenta
PCIC_OPTS=do_scan=0
CORE_OPTS=
CARDMGR_OPTS=-f

/etc/pcmcia/config(sections)
...
device "serial_cs"
  class "serial" module "serial_cs"
...
card "Gateway Telepath Ethernet/Modem"
  version "Gateway 2000", "XJEM3336"
  bind "smc91c92_cs", "serial_cs"
...

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/etc/pcmcia/config.opts(sections) -----------------------------------

# System resources available for PCMCIA devices

include memory 0x80000000-0x80ffffff
include port 0x1000-0x1fff
include port 0x100-0xaff

# Extra port range for IBM Token Ring
...(all the rest is commented out)