Problem with Advantech COMpad2 pcmcia card with pcmciautils

[Ken Kawasaki]

Hi,

Could you post the output of "pccardctl ident" ?


Ken.

> A while back, I was using an Ubuntu system with a 
> 2.4 kernel.   I was able to get a dual serial 
> port PCMCIA card from Advantech to work w/o 
> too much problem using the old pcmcia-cs tools. 
> 
> The config file in /etc/pcmcia contained the following
> entries: 
> 
> card "Advantech COMpad-32/85B-2"
>   version "ADVANTECH", "COMpad-32/85B-2"
>   cis "cis/COMpad2.dat"
>   bind "serial_cs"
> 
> card "Advantech COMpad-32/85B-4"
>   version "ADVANTECH", "COMpad-32/85B-4"
>   cis "cis/COMpad4.dat"
>   bind "serial_cs"
> 
> #card "Advantech COMpad-32/85"
> #  version "ADV", "*", "TECH", "COMpad-32/85"
> #  bind "serial_cs"
> 
> card "Advantech COMpad-32/85B-2"
>   version "ADV", "*", "TECH", "COMpad-32/85B-2"
>   bind "serial_cs"
> 
> 
> When the card was inserted, it was correctly bound
> to the serial_cs and two new ttyS's showed up 
> that I could access. 
> 
> A student updated the system to XUbuntu 8.04
> which is using a 2.6 kernel (2.6.24-24). 
> With the new pcmciautils, I cannot get the 
> card to work. 
> 
> Here's what I have tried.  I copied the
> COMpad2.dat file from /etc/pcmcia/cis directory
> (I had a backup) to /lib/firmware/COMpad2.cis
> 
> I added the above entries to the config.opts
> file in /etc/pcmcia.   However, the card
> shows up as being bound to parport_cs.
> 
> I manually loaded the serial_cs module.
> Same result.   I tries changing the cis
> line to cis "COMpad2.cis"
> I tried several other variations, even
> the absolute path name.
> 
> Any advice, stupid things I have overlooked, etc?
> I tried removing the entries except for the
> first one that refers to this specific card.
> I tried various wildcards.
> 
> I have acquired a USB to serial adaptor and am
> currently using it along with the one built-in
> port.  But this is nagging me---it *should*
> work, right?
> 
> thanks,
> kenny
> 
> 
> 
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Ken Kawasaki <ken_kawasaki at spring.nifty.jp>