Aircard 850 on a Thinkpad Z61M

I'm running Debian unstable, linux-image-2.6.21-1-686_2.6.21-4_i386.deb and
pcmciautils 014-3 on a Lenevo Thinkpad Z61M. I am trying to get my Sierra
Aircard 850 recognized. When I insert the card into the PCMCIA slot I get the
following in syslog:

Jun 21 23:37:28 lab001 kernel: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
Jun 21 23:37:28 lab001 kernel: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0

i.e. no TTY is assigned to the card

otherwise the card is recognized:

=================================================================
lab001:~# lspcmcia -v
Socket 0 Bridge: [yenta_cardbus] (bus ID: 0000:15:00.0)
Configuration: state: on ready: yes
Voltage: 5.0V Vcc: 5.0V Vpp: 0.0V
Socket 0 Device 0: [serial_cs] (bus ID: 0.0)
Configuration: state: on
Product Name: Sierra Wireless AC850 3G Network Adapter R1
Identification: manf_id: 0x0192 card_id: 0x0710
function: 2 (serial)
prod_id(1): "Sierra Wireless" (0xd85f6206)
prod_id(2): "AC850" (0x42a2c018)
prod_id(3): "3G Network Adapter" (0xab3c6f47)
prod_id(4): "R1" (0xd9533fec)
===================================================================

when I run cardmgr though, the card is recognized and assigned to TTYS0. Do you
have any suggestions as to why this is and how I can get this card assigned a
TTY using a 2.6 kernel?

Thank you,

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On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:02:07 -0400 (EDT)
josh.DeleteThis@ramat.cc wrote:

> I'm running Debian unstable,
> linux-image-2.6.21-1-686_2.6.21-4_i386.deb and pcmciautils 014-3 on a
> Lenevo Thinkpad Z61M. I am trying to get my Sierra Aircard 850
> recognized. When I insert the card into the PCMCIA slot I get the
> following in syslog:
>
> Jun 21 23:37:28 lab001 kernel: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot
> 0 Jun 21 23:37:28 lab001 kernel: pcmcia: registering new device
> pcmcia0.0
>
> i.e. no TTY is assigned to the card
>
> when I run cardmgr though, the card is recognized and assigned to
> TTYS0. Do you have any suggestions as to why this is and how I can
> get this card assigned a TTY using a 2.6 kernel?

I don't have this card, but I believe I have seen similar behavior before if the firmware blob was missing.

According to this
http://mycusthelp.com/sierrawireless/supportkbitem.asp?sSessionID=&Inc...03&sFil
cardmgr used to look for the firmware in /etc/pcmcia/cis/

According to this
http://www.sierrawireless.com/faq/ShowFAQ.aspx?ID=118
for the 2.6 kernel you need to move that firmware blob over to /lib/firmware/

Clayton


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