On a laptop, it comes up as a USB hub with three UARTS on it - general
driver stack is as follows:

sierra
usbserial
ohci-hcd
yenta-socket
pcmcia

AFACT from Sierra's site, all of their new cards follow this model
regardless of connection media.


RB

On 1/15/08, Felix Fietkau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
>
> - Felix
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