pcmcia serial card on Fedora Core 4?

I'm working on getting a pcmcia serial card working on an HP zv6233nr
running Fedora Core 4 _ 64. The PCMCIA seems to be running since I can
plug in a pcmcia wireless card and get it to work. I'm now trying to
get an EIA232 card to work. I've tried following the directions at
[url]http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.4[/url] .
The card responds as:

sbin]# ./cardctl ident
Socket 0:
product info: "OXSEMI", "OXCB950", "Rev A"
manfid: 0x0279, 0x0001
function: 2 (serial)

As instructed, I put the below in /etc/pcmcia/config

card "OXSEMI OXCB950 Rev A"
version "OXSEMI", "OXCB950", "Rev A"
# manfid 0x0279, 0x0001
bind "serial_cs"


At this point, I can reboot the system and one of the LEDs on the
serial card lights. However, I see nothing /var/log/messages about
pcmcia initialization. Also, /var/lib/pcmcia/stab has this in it:

Socket 0: empty


So... What am I missing? I did the "install everything" option on FC4.

THANKS!

Harold

[email]harold@hallikainen.com[/email] wrote:
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> I'm working on getting a pcmcia serial card working on an HP zv6233nr
> running Fedora Core 4 _ 64. The PCMCIA seems to be running since I can
> plug in a pcmcia wireless card and get it to work. I'm now trying to
> get an EIA232 card to work. I've tried following the directions at
> [url]http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-HOWTO-3.html#ss3.4[/url] .
> The card responds as:
>
> sbin]# ./cardctl ident
> Socket 0:
> product info: "OXSEMI", "OXCB950", "Rev A"
> manfid: 0x0279, 0x0001
> function: 2 (serial)
>
> As instructed, I put the below in /etc/pcmcia/config
>
> card "OXSEMI OXCB950 Rev A"
> version "OXSEMI", "OXCB950", "Rev A"
> # manfid 0x0279, 0x0001
> bind "serial_cs"
>
>
> At this point, I can reboot the system and one of the LEDs on the
> serial card lights. However, I see nothing /var/log/messages about
> pcmcia initialization. Also, /var/lib/pcmcia/stab has this in it:
>
> Socket 0: empty
>
>
> So... What am I missing? I did the "install everything" option on FC4.[/color]

Does 'cat /proc/modules' without the single quotemarks show the module
serial_cs as being loaded with the card inserted? Do you even have the
serial modules?

check by; ls -l /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/serial

Example output;
$ ls -l /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/serial
total 136
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30914 Dec 25 10:16 8250.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34543 Dec 25 10:16 8250_pci.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28611 Dec 25 10:16 serial_core.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 37171 Dec 25 10:16 serial_cs.ko




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Anything that runs on that computer, you should have control over."
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THANKS for the response! Looks like the driver exists but not being
loaded.

I then tried

/sbin/modprobe serial_cs

which got the driver loaded, as shown by
cat /proc/modules

The PCMCIA how to indicates that /etc/pcmcia/config should contain
device "serial_cs"
class "serial" module "misc/serial", "serial_cs"

to load the driver.

The /etc/pcmcia/config that came with FC4 has this in
/etc/pcmcia/config
device "serial_cs"
class "serial" module "serial_cs"

I tried modifying /etc/pcmcia/config as shown the how-to, but the
driver is still not loaded after a reboot. So, I've changed it back.

running /sbin/modprobe serial_cs does indeed get the driver loaded.

[root@hhlaptop harold]# cat /proc/modules
serial_cs 11085 0 - Live 0xffffffff88330000

The loading of serial_cs doesn't seem to place anything in
/var/log/messages that I can find.

Ideas?

THANKS!

Harold

[email]harold@hallikainen.com[/email] wrote:[color=blue]
> running /sbin/modprobe serial_cs does indeed get the driver loaded.[/color]
[[but notafter a reboot]]

Have a look for a file like /etc/modules.conf It configures the
kernel at boot time.

man modprobe & man modules.conf are your friends

[[REPOST]
[email]harold@hallikainen.com[/email] wrote:
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> I tried modifying /etc/pcmcia/config as shown the how-to, but the
> driver is still not loaded after a reboot. So, I've changed it back.[/color]

/etc/modules.conf See the man page for details.

[email]robertharvey@my-deja.com[/email] wrote:[color=blue]
> [email]harold@hallikainen.com[/email] wrote:
>[color=green]
>>running /sbin/modprobe serial_cs does indeed get the driver loaded.[/color]
>
> [[but notafter a reboot]]
>
> Have a look for a file like /etc/modules.conf It configures the
> kernel at boot time.[/color]

I think on Fedora it's called /etc/modprobe.conf

[color=blue]
> man modprobe & man modules.conf are your friends
>[/color]

OK, another clue on this... I'm seeing no log entries in
var/log/messages on inserting or removing a card. In addition, I hear
no beeps on card insertion or deletion. As I understand it, cardmgr is
supposed to beep on card insertion, then again on recognizing the card.
I'm getting no beep. I tried m new serial card, a Linksys ethernet
card, and a WLAN card. cardmgr IS running since it complains if I try
to start it again.

Any ideas? This is FC4 on an HP zv6000 series.

THANKS!

Harold

[email]harold@hallikainen.com[/email] wrote:
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> OK, another clue on this... I'm seeing no log entries in
> var/log/messages on inserting or removing a card. In addition, I hear
> no beeps on card insertion or deletion. As I understand it, cardmgr is
> supposed to beep on card insertion, then again on recognizing the card.
> I'm getting no beep. I tried m new serial card, a Linksys ethernet
> card, and a WLAN card. cardmgr IS running since it complains if I try
> to start it again.
>
> Any ideas? This is FC4 on an HP zv6000 series.[/color]

Most laptops do not have a 'pc speaker' for the 'beeps' available, but you
can always add the module (pcspkr) if you desire and available.

Quick checks;
ls -l /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/misc/
cat /proc/modules | grep pcspkr


--
"A personal computer is called a personal computer because it's yours,
Anything that runs on that computer, you should have control over."
Andrew Moss, Microsoft's senior director of technical policy, 2005

This seems to have a PC speaker since it beeps on power up when it asks
for the power up password. Besides no beep, I'm getting nothing in
/var/log/messages. Makes me think cardmgr isn't working right.

Harold

[email]harold@hallikainen.com[/email] wrote:
[color=blue]
> This seems to have a PC speaker since it beeps on power up when it asks
> for the power up password. Besides no beep, I'm getting nothing in
> /var/log/messages. Makes me think cardmgr isn't working right.[/color]

The BIOS has support(built-in) to make the noise and Operating System does
not (no pcskpr module).

--
"A personal computer is called a personal computer because it's yours,
Anything that runs on that computer, you should have control over."
Andrew Moss, Microsoft's senior director of technical policy, 2005