minicom not talking to Merlin U530 pcmcia card

toad · 2009-01-22 08:33:35

I am trying to get this new fangled internet on the road thingy to work and am stumbling, stumbling, falling...

First off, after insertion dmesg tells me:

1.0: ttyS2 at I/O 0x3e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A

But try as I may, minicom is refusing to talk to anything on ttyS2.

Here my modules:

MODULES=(acpi-cpufreq ppp-generic cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_powersave e1000 slhc ipw2200 ac97_bus snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-ac97-codec snd-intel8x0 snd-intel8x0m soundcore)

Here my daemons:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng @sshd @cpufreq @openntpd @cups @hal @fam @alsa @sensors @gamin @network @kdm netfs @crond @wicd @slmodem-alsa)

What on earth am I missing? I've googled and it apparently should just work. I've checked this forum, ditto. Nothing in the wiki that I found.

Any ideas, links, hints out there?

Cheers

Last edited by toad (2009-01-23 19:30:41)

toad · 2009-01-22 18:57:29

It appears that I did not include all the info necessary (and to bump this up just a bit ). I want/need to get this UMTS thing working. Unfortunately factsheets etc. for this card are not available to mere mortals from the Novatel website

The Merlin U530 is an oldish Novatel pcmcia card which I am trying to get to work on an IBM T41.

[toad@archtop ~]$ lshwd
00:00.0 Class 0600: Intel Corp.|82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (intel-agp)
00:01.0 Class 0604: Intel Corp.|82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (unknown)
00:1d.0 Class 0c03: Intel Corp.|82801DB USB Controller (uhci_hcd)
00:1d.1 Class 0c03: Intel Corp.|82801DB USB Controller (uhci_hcd)
00:1d.2 Class 0c03: Intel Corp.|82801DB USB Controller (uhci_hcd)
00:1d.7 Class 0c03: Intel Corp.|82801DB USB Enhanced Controller (ehci-hcd)
00:1e.0 Class 0604: Intel Corp.|82801 Hub Interface to PCI Bridge (hw_random)
00:1f.0 Class 0601: Intel Corp.|82801DBM LPC Interface Bridge (i810-tco)
00:1f.1 Class 0101: Intel Corp.|82801DBM IDE Controller (UltraATA/100) (piix)
00:1f.3 Class 0c05: Intel Corp.|82801DB SMBus Controller (i2c-i801)
00:1f.5 Class 0401: Intel Corp.|ICH4 845G/GL Chipset AC'97 Audio Controller (snd-intel8x0)
00:1f.6 Class 0703: Intel Corporation|Acer Aspire 2001WLCi (Compal CL50 motherboard) implementation (snd-intel8x0m)
01:00.0 Class 0300: ATI Technologies Inc.|Radeon Mobility M7 LW (AGP) (ati)
02:00.0 Class 0607: Texas Instruments|PCI4520 PC Card CardBus Controller (yenta_socket)
02:00.1 Class 0607: Texas Instruments|PCI4520 PC Card CardBus Controller (yenta_socket)
02:01.0 Class 0200: Intel Corp.|82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Mobile) (e1000)
02:02.0 Class 0280: Intel Corp.|Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG (ipw2200)

[toad@archtop ~]$ uname -a
Linux archtop 2.6.28-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jan 18 20:17:17 UTC 2009 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

[toad@archtop ~]$ lspcmcia
Socket 0 Bridge: [yenta_cardbus] (bus ID: 0000:02:00.0)
Socket 1 Bridge: [yenta_cardbus] (bus ID: 0000:02:00.1)
Socket 1 Device 0: [serial_cs] (bus ID: 1.0)
Socket 1 Device 1: [-- no driver --] (bus ID: 1.1)

[toad@archtop ~]$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
ipv6 260212 8
michael_mic 4224 2
arc4 3712 2
ecb 4608 2
ieee80211_crypt_tkip 10752 1
aes_i586 9600 1
aes_generic 29224 1 aes_i586
ieee80211_crypt_ccmp 7424 1
radeon 145952 2
drm 83752 3 radeon
serial_cs 22404 1
ppdev 9348 0
irtty_sir 7040 0
lp 11108 0
sir_dev 13316 1 irtty_sir
psmouse 55828 0
pcspkr 4352 0
serio_raw 7172 0
iTCO_wdt 12836 0
iTCO_vendor_support 4996 1 iTCO_wdt
i2c_i801 10896 0
nsc_ircc 18320 0
uhci_hcd 24592 0
sg 26804 0
i2c_core 22804 1 i2c_i801
video 18576 0
output 4608 1 video
parport_pc 37700 1
irda 112440 2 sir_dev,nsc_ircc
parport 33004 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
shpchp 34068 0
intel_agp 27580 1
crc_ccitt 3840 1 irda
pci_hotplug 28064 1 shpchp
agpgart 31572 2 drm,intel_agp
thinkpad_acpi 59832 0
pcmcia 35660 1 serial_cs
rfkill 11724 1 thinkpad_acpi
led_class 5508 1 thinkpad_acpi
nvram 8972 1 thinkpad_acpi
evdev 11296 6
thermal 17180 1
fan 6276 1
button 7824 0
battery 12036 0
ac 6020 0
snd_intel8x0m 15500 5
snd_seq_oss 31872 0
snd_seq_midi_event 8192 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_intel8x0 30876 2
snd_seq 49968 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 8332 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_ac97_codec 102436 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 40320 0
snd_pcm 70020 6 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 21384 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 10120 3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
snd_mixer_oss 16512 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd 50852 22 snd_intel8x0m,snd_seq_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss
soundcore 8160 1 snd
ac97_bus 3584 1 snd_ac97_codec
ipw2200 142536 0
ieee80211 29512 1 ipw2200
ieee80211_crypt 6532 3 ieee80211_crypt_tkip,ieee80211_crypt_ccmp,ieee80211
e1000 121540 0
cpufreq_powersave 3456 0
cpufreq_ondemand 8972 1
ppp_generic 25244 0
slhc 7680 1 ppp_generic
acpi_cpufreq 9868 0
freq_table 5632 2 cpufreq_ondemand,acpi_cpufreq
processor 41388 3 thermal,acpi_cpufreq
rtc_cmos 12332 0
rtc_core 17564 1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib 4480 1 rtc_core
ext3 126856 3
jbd 46996 1 ext3
mbcache 8708 1 ext3
dm_crypt 14724 0
dm_mod 54216 1 dm_crypt
sr_mod 16708 0
cdrom 35360 1 sr_mod
sd_mod 26904 5
yenta_socket 25996 5
rsrc_nonstatic 13056 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 34452 4 serial_cs,pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
ehci_hcd 36876 0
usbcore 136976 3 uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
ata_piix 23300 4
ata_generic 6788 0
pata_acpi 6016 0
libata 158240 3 ata_piix,ata_generic,pata_acpi
scsi_mod 102036 4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata

Other than that I have not gotten further but will keep on trying.

Last edited by toad (2009-01-22 18:59:40)

toad · 2009-01-22 20:01:12

I don't know what I did or didn't do but all of a sudden they are handshaking and off I go!

Result: a somewhat non-plussed but happy toad

toad · 2009-01-23 19:30:23

CROAK!

I inserted the card next day and guess what - the modem wasn't there!

Apart from quite enjoying this monologue and upping my post count I now need to check whether it is the card or the computer which doesn't play as it ought to. Bother!

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#1 2009-01-22 08:33:35

minicom not talking to Merlin U530 pcmcia card

#2 2009-01-22 18:57:29

Re: minicom not talking to Merlin U530 pcmcia card

#3 2009-01-22 20:01:12

Re: minicom not talking to Merlin U530 pcmcia card

#4 2009-01-23 19:30:23

Re: minicom not talking to Merlin U530 pcmcia card

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