RE: [SLE] sierra wireless aircard 860 problems

Hi,

Aircard 860 is working on my Desktop now :)

Here I am giving the steps that I followed to make the Seirra Wireless Aircard 860 to work on my Desktop running suse 10.1 (kernel 2.6.1613.4-smp)
1. Get the cis (Card Information Structure) file from the sierra wireless. The below link is for Aircard 8xx
http://mycusthelp.com/sierrawireless/supportkbitem.asp?sSessionID=&Inc=4703&sFilA=FAQ%20Category&sFilB=Products&sFilC=&FA=19&FB=26&FC=-1
The same cis may work for others also. check it out from the Sierra wireless.
Rename the file "SW_8xx_SER.dat" to "SW_7xx_SER.cis" and copy it to /lib/firmware.
We have to do this because serial_cs.c file has hard coded value for SW_7xx_SER.cis

2. Get the latest pcmciautils and install. I used pcmciautils-014.

3. Read the cis file and find out the serial port range for Aircard.
dump_cis utility can be used to get the info.
Now add this range to /etc/pcmcia/config.opts. "include port xxxx-xxxx" where xxxx-xxxx is the port range in the cis file.
you can skip this step if, the range is already included or the same range is being used by ur serial tty. but there is no harm in including the range.

Thats it. u r done.

-RamaRao

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Subject: Re: [SLE] sierra wireless aircard 860 problems
From: Adolph & Sharon Weidanz <timetopaws@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, July 15, 2006 6:13 am
To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx

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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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