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Topic: Can't connect with pppd with modem (pcmcia), pppd unrecognized option '/dev/modem'

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ngmlinux

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Posted: Feb. 15 2006,02:28

In DSL Control Panel -> PCMCIA Tool -> Info my modem info is correctly displayed.

In /dev I have ttyS[0..7] listed. Apparently I don't have entries for ttyS00 and ttyS01 in /dev.

However when I dmesg, the only UARTs that come up are ttyS00 and ttyS01. There is no mention of the ttySX's in dmesg.

ngmlinux

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Posted: Feb. 15 2006,22:21

Here's some more infomation on my issue that may or may not be of help:

At boot the following messages are given:

Code Sample

PCMCIA found, starting cardmgr.
cardmgr[104]: Starting, version 3.2.5
cardmgr[104]: Unsupported card in socket 0
cardmgr[104]: Product Info: "Sierra Wireless", "AC775", "EDGE Network Adapter", "R1"
cardmgr[104]: manfid: 0x0192, 0x0710 function: 6 (network)

Also, information on the linux driver for the card and setup can be found here.

Let me know if there is any other information that would be useful in debuging this.

Thanks.

roberts

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Posted: Feb. 15 2006,23:11

A wireless dialup modem? Never heard of such a thing.
Does it connect to a wired base station?

At first I thought this might be a wireless network card and then you should be trying the pppoe script?

Without having such equipment, sorry, cannot help much.
Maybe someone has a clue.

ngmlinux

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Posted: Feb. 15 2006,23:35

Don't be too concerned with the wireless aspect of the modem, it works exactly like wired dialup modem on the software side. It dials a phone # via ppp.

The issue does not appear to be ppp related at all, I simply can't find an entry for the card under /dev.

ngmlinux

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Posted: Feb. 16 2006,00:03

I found a page here that more or less describes what I am doing.

From this I have a guess at what might be going wrong. I think since I am still getting the Unsupported card message, I'm guessing that the updated /etc/pcmcia/config file may not be loading/overwriting from the flash image until after cardmgr runs.

The way I got that file to persist is by editing it and adding it to filetool.lst I've verified that it does persist but i'm concerned that there may be a syntax issue in that it does not load early enough in the boot process. Any thoughts?

Thanks.

Also wanted to mention this is a 16-bit pcmcia card (not Cardbus) and requires serial_cs, which I've been able to modprobe.

Here's another website with what may possibly be a related issue:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/f/topic-3-8-9454-5.html

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