RB wrote: > Hopefully this will catch someone in a helpful mood. > > Right now, there is no way for anyone to use Sierra Wireless (standard > handout from Verizon/Sprint) cellular cards with OpenWRT on the > Broadcom 47xx platform. Although it seems Linksys ported sierra.c > over from the linux-2.6 (as evidenced by sierra.o in the official 2.09 > firmware), the only publicly available copy I can find is for 2.6. > For whatever reasons, it seems nico (maybe others) blocked 2.6 PCMCIA > support for the 47xx, producing a mutual exclusion that prevents usage > of the WRT54G3G to any effectiveness. > > I've stumbled about in the build system enough to get pcmcia-cs and > the relevant kernel modules built, and even 'ported' nbd's > kamikaze_7.09/target/linux/brcm-2.4/patches/009-wrt54g3g_pcmcia.patch > over to 2.6, but yenta_socket still shows an Oops and obviously > doesn't work. I'm reaching the limits of my immediate capability, and > am not sure what else to 'fix'. > > Attached is the brain-dead port of the PCMCIA patch I made; anyone see > any problems with it? I have a question about the card. Is it accessed through a cardbus driver, or is it supposed to produce a PCI device or an USB host controller? I'm asking, because even on 2.4, there are a few cards that I haven't been able to get to work yet, and all of them use the serial_cs driver.
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