Re: [SLE] sierra wireless aircard 860 problems

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RamaRao wrote:
Adolph & Sharon Weidanz wrote:
kvl.ramarao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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...



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