Sorry if this is a duplicate, I did not see this make it onto the list. Greg KH and anyone else that can help,
I am trying to better understand the details with these cellular data cards and have found a number of resources but still have some questions as follows: Are the majority of these cellular/evdo data cards (kyocera 650, novatel 620, etc) ultimately USB serial devices? In other words, I believe that they contain USB controllers that sit on top of the PCI bus via the PCMCIA adapter. Given that, I have seen the general instruction to use modprobe providing the vendor and device ids to recognize the devices. Additionally, I have seen two implementations contributed by Greg KH (tiny serial driver from LJ and another possibly more obscure airprime or airframe specific driver basically a specification of the tiny driver). These two examples contain the vendor and device ids so that the user is not required to enter them directly. My next question is if this driver can then be linked to a non-loadable module kernel and then recognize the device at boot without the need to use modprobe, etc? Secondly, these sample drivers are for 2.6 and I have tried to use the same approach in 2.4.32. For initial testing, I extern'd the probe and disconnect fundtions from usbserial.c and I can see that the entry points are being called from my new test module (same as the tiny usb driver) but, sadly, I get no love from the usbserial driver, never realizing the port assignment. Is this the wrong approach to solve this problem on 2.4? Clearly the simplest solution is to fall back to the loadable module/modprobe approach, but having chosen this path to enlightenment I am a bit to stubborn to just give up now. Thank you, Tom ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
