A while back, I was using an Ubuntu system with a 2.4 kernel. I was able to get a dual serial port PCMCIA card from Advantech to work w/o too much problem using the old pcmcia-cs tools.
The config file in /etc/pcmcia contained the following entries: card "Advantech COMpad-32/85B-2" version "ADVANTECH", "COMpad-32/85B-2" cis "cis/COMpad2.dat" bind "serial_cs" card "Advantech COMpad-32/85B-4" version "ADVANTECH", "COMpad-32/85B-4" cis "cis/COMpad4.dat" bind "serial_cs" #card "Advantech COMpad-32/85" # version "ADV", "*", "TECH", "COMpad-32/85" # bind "serial_cs" card "Advantech COMpad-32/85B-2" version "ADV", "*", "TECH", "COMpad-32/85B-2" bind "serial_cs" When the card was inserted, it was correctly bound to the serial_cs and two new ttyS's showed up that I could access. A student updated the system to XUbuntu 8.04 which is using a 2.6 kernel (2.6.24-24). With the new pcmciautils, I cannot get the card to work. Here's what I have tried. I copied the COMpad2.dat file from /etc/pcmcia/cis directory (I had a backup) to /lib/firmware/COMpad2.cis I added the above entries to the config.opts file in /etc/pcmcia. However, the card shows up as being bound to parport_cs. I manually loaded the serial_cs module. Same result. I tries changing the cis line to cis "COMpad2.cis" I tried several other variations, even the absolute path name. Any advice, stupid things I have overlooked, etc? I tried removing the entries except for the first one that refers to this specific card. I tried various wildcards. I have acquired a USB to serial adaptor and am currently using it along with the one built-in port. But this is nagging me---it *should* work, right? thanks, kenny Successfully Scanned by the McAfee SIG 3200 Appliance. _______________________________________________ Linux PCMCIA reimplementation list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pcmcia
