Re: Sierra Wireless Aircard 750 GSM/GPRS

Just following up with the dumpcis output in case this may shed more light on 
the problem, see end of message. Another item that may be of interest, I came 
across a site that gave some info on getting an earlier version of the card 
(model 210, approx 3-4 years old?) to work under Linux, the author made 
contact with the developers at Sierra (I'm trying to get that contact address 
at the moment!) who said the following:

"The radio card only needs to have voltages applied to it (there is no 
communication on the PC Card port for this card, only across the external 
connector), so all you would need to do to get it working is to enable the 
appropriate voltages when the card is installed.  It needs 5V and 12V.  That's 
it. Once that is completed, then the modem responds to AT commands, and passes 
whatever control information is needed across the external connector to the 
radio card."

Perhaps this might also apply to the 750 model card? Full info available from:

http://www.sacredsoulrecords.com/aircard/

Thanks again for all the help!

- Julian

Dumpcis output:
-------------------------------------------
Configuration data for card in slot 0
Tuple #1, code = 0x1 (Common memory descriptor), length = 2
    000:  00 ff
        Common memory device information:
                Device number 1, type No device, WPS = OFF
                Speed = No speed, Memory block size = reserved, 32 units
Tuple #2, code = 0x17 (Attribute memory descriptor), length = 3
    000:  41 00 ff
        Attribute memory device information:
                Device number 1, type EEPROM, WPS = OFF
                Speed = 250nS, Memory block size = 512b, 1 units
Tuple #3, code = 0x20 (Manufacturer ID), length = 4
    000:  92 01 10 07
        PCMCIA ID = 0x192, OEM ID = 0x710
Tuple #4, code = 0x21 (Functional ID), length = 2
    000:  06 00
        Network/LAN adapter
Tuple #5, code = 0x15 (Version 1 info), length = 55
    000:  07 00 53 69 65 72 72 61 20 57 69 72 65 6c 65 73
    010:  73 00 41 43 37 31 30 2f 41 43 37 35 30 00 47 50
    020:  52 53 20 4e 65 74 77 6f 72 6b 20 41 64 61 70 74
    030:  65 72 00 52 31 00 ff
        Version = 7.0, Manuf = [Sierra Wireless], card vers = [AC710/AC750]
        Addit. info = [GPRS Network Adapter],[R1]
Tuple #6, code = 0x1a (Configuration map), length = 5
    000:  01 03 00 07 73
        Reg len = 2, config register addr = 0x700, last config = 0x3
        Registers: XX--XXX-
Tuple #7, code = 0x1b (Configuration entry), length = 9
    000:  c1 41 19 01 55 66 30 f8 ff
        Config index = 0x1(default)
        Interface byte = 0x41 (I/O)  +RDY/-BSY active
        Vcc pwr:
                Nominal operating supply voltage: 5 x 1V
        Card decodes 6 address lines, full 8/16 Bit I/O
                IRQ modes: Level
                IRQs:  3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Tuple #8, code = 0xff (Terminator), length = 0
1 slots found




> In message: <[email protected]>
>             Jason Andresen <[email protected]> writes:
> : Kirill Bezzubets wrote:
> : > 
> : > 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..
> : 
> : Isn't this what FreeBSD defaults to if it doesn't recognise your
> : card?  It might just be a case of adding your card's ID to a 
> : switch statement.  
> 
> 8250 means that we can't really ID the FIFO.  Also, 0x240-0x27f is
> kinda an odd range.  I'm thinking that maybe 0x278 is where the FIFO
> starts...
> 
> Warner



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