On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 07:51:32AM -0700, Thomas L. Marshall wrote: > 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.
Yes, it seems that they are just dumb USB pipes :) > 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. Yes, it's better not to use the generic usb-serial driver for something that you care about data rates and line speed changes. > 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? The generic driver works just fine built into the kernel, just use the modprobe options on the command line like the kernel command line documentation states to do so. > Secondly, these sample drivers are for 2.6 and I have tried to use the same > approach in 2.4.32. Ah, sorry, you're on your own here. 2.4 is in deep maintenance mode with no real new changes going into it at all. I really recommend you move to a 2.6 based system. good luck, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- 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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
