Re: Sierra Wireless Aircard 750 GSM/GPRS

> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 00:20:29 +0400
> From: Kirill Bezzubets <[email protected]>
> Sender: [email protected]
> 
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 04:49:41PM +0100, Julian Chesterfield wrote:
> 
> > 
> > sio4 at port 0x240-0x27f irq 9 flags 0x40000 slot 0 on pccard0
> > sio4: type 8250
> 
> 8250?.. Hmm.. Even my old USR Megahertz shows up as 16550A sio..

As it turns out, the sio driver will report 8250 if the interface
fails to respond. The driver tries sending a couple of requests to the
serial port that the 16550 family will understand and use this to
determine just what chip the interface uses. If attempts to
communicate with the hardware fail, it assumes 8250, but it's probably
more likely that it is not talking to the interface at all.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: [email protected]			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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