[lug] PCMCIA modem problem

[John Karns]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Chuck Morrison said:

> Hi,
>
> I've been having a heck of a time getting a pcmcia modem to work on my
> laptop with SuSE 7.2. First I got a Xircom card which didn't work. Oh, it
> dialed and started making noise, but It would never connect. It acted the
> same way under SuSE and Winders98.

There is a utility in the pcmcia pkg called dump_cis.  SuSE includes the
pkg I believe.  It should spit out a bunch of info about the card.  I have
two Xircom Modem / Ether combo cards - CEM33 and CEM56 - which I've had
very good luck with.  Anyway here's some sample output from dump_cis:

> dump_cis

 1 Socket 1:
 2   dev_info
 3     no_info
 4   attr_dev_info
 5     no_info
 6   vers_1 5.0, "Xircom", "CreditCard Ethernet 10/100 + Modem 56", "CEM56"
 7     "1.00"
 8   manfid 0x0105, 0x110a
 9   config base 0xff80 mask 0x0067 last_index 0x3f
10   cftable_entry 0x27 [default]
11     [rdybsy] [mwait] [pwrdown]
12     Vcc Vnom 5V Vmin 4500mV Vmax 5500mV Istatic 450mA
13     timing wait 12ms ready 12ms
14     io 0x02e8-0x02ef [lines=10] [8bit] [16bit] [range]
15     irq mask 0x8ebc [level] [pulse] [shared]
16   cftable_entry 0x1f
17     io 0x03e8-0x03ef [lines=10] [8bit] [16bit] [range]
18   cftable_entry 0x17
19     io 0x02f8-0x02ff [lines=10] [8bit] [16bit] [range]
20   cftable_entry 0x0f
21     io 0x03f8-0x03ff [lines=10] [8bit] [16bit] [range]
22   cftable_entry 0x3f
23     io 0x0000-0x0007 [lines=3] [8bit] [16bit]
24   funcid serial_port
25   serial_interface
26     uart 16550 [space/mark/odd/even] [7/8] [1/2]
27   serial_data_services
28     data_rate 115200
29     modulation [Bell103] [V.21] [V.23] [V.22] [Bell212A]
30       [V.22bis] [V.32] [V.32bis] [V.34]
31     error_control [MNP2-4] [V.42/LAPM]
32     compression [V.42bis] [MNP5]
33     cmd_protocol [AT1] [AT2] [AT3] [MNP_AT]
34   serial_fax_services [class=1]
35     data_rate 115200
36     modulation [V.21-C2] [V.27ter] [V.17]
37     features [T.4]
38   funcid network_adapter
39   lan_node_id 00 10 a4 d1 62 c1

Note that line 26 shows that it sees a UART, and lines 14 & 15 show that
the card manager has assigned io mapping and irq.

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John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net