Re: pcmcia subsystem completely broken

[Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 04:51:13PM +0200, Michal Purzynski wrote:
> #Use Manufacturing ID to match all GlobeTrotter variants
> manfid 0x0013, 0x0000
> cis "cis/GLOBETROTTER.cis"
> bind "serial_cs"
> 
> as you can see, i'm using old pcmcia-cs tools, since it's not possible to 
> replace firmware on demand with pcmciautils - 1st. hence first question - 
> when it will be possible ?

Since 2.6.13 or so. You need to add a line to the serial_id table in
drivers/serial/serial_cs.c, though:
	PCMCIA_DEVICE_CIS_MANF_CARD(0x0013, 0x0000, "GLOBETROTTER.cis");
and GLOBETROTTER.cis needs to be available in /lib/firmware/ . Of course the
default kernel firmware loading mechanism (either udev or hotplug) must
work, too...

> i supposed old tools will finally stop working and 
> i'll be fried after that change.

Old tools will only be removed once there's no regression. Oh, and where did
you read that replacing firmware on demand wasn't possible with
pcmciautils?

> second problem with it - even after serial port is detected properly, i'm 
> still unable to communicate with that card, no AT command is delivered, no 
> reaction from card.

Please post a lspcmcia and dmesg output to the linux-pcmcia list at
linux-pcmcia (AT) lists (DOT) infradead (DOT) org

	Dominik