Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 05:46:05AM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: >> Dell Wireless Broadband ExpressCards are rebrands of Novatel's cards. >> Add all of their known PCI IDs to date along with their mapping to the exact >> Novatel model to the Option driver which already claims to support them. > > Are you positive these are really not sierra wireless chipsets inside of > these devices? To be honest, no, I can't be 100% sure.
However, Dell has a business deal with Novatel to rebrand cards and from Googling it there doesn't seem to be a second deal with Sierra. Since these are not recognized by default, users either think that the hardware is not supported by Linux or they try with usbserial.ko (driver binding should work but it seems it isn't very popular). At least that's what Google suggests. I think that adding them to option.ko will actually help in recognizing false positives -- which is a slim, IMHO, possibility. We're not actually "losing" anything. Users who would edit /etc/modprobe.d/ will just have to add a blacklist too, or those who would do a driver bind will have to do an unbind first. Since Dell is apparently going Linux on the laptops these days, I sent an email after I sent my first mail here to Matt Domsch, asking him of a complete and accurate list of PCI IDs. I wouldn't wait on his reply, but if you will I'll understand. Thanks, Faidon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
