Re: [Wirelessdriver-support] Slightly-OT: Sierra Wireless AC550

[Rob M. <ro...@ma...>]

At one point last year, I talked to Sierra Wireless on the phone 
(They're 15 minutes away from me by car) and offered to do a driver for 
them if they'd give em a free unit and some technical info, but they 
"didn't see a business case for it".  Oh well...

I've talked with a half a dozen or so people around who want this 
working as well.  The issue here is that OS X rejects all PCCards that 
register as multifunction devices without further consideration unless 
you specifically override that behavior with a custom enabler.  It 
really shouldn't be too difficult, but it requires some knowledge of 
PCCard CIS structures, etc.

Hope that helps,

-Rob


On Sunday, May 25, 2003, at 19:44 Canada/Pacific, Iain MacDonnell wrote:

>
> Apologies for the slight abuse of this list, but I don't think I'm 
> *too*
> far off-topic, and figure that if I'll find an answer anywhere, it'll
> be here.
>
> I have a Sierra Wireless AirCard 550 1xRTT PC Card:
>
> 	http://www.sierrawireless.com/ProductsOrdering/AC5501xRTT.asp
>
> which I'd like to get working on my TiBook. It's only officially 
> supported
> on Windows, but I found some instructions (which since seem to have
> disappeared!) on Sierra's website for getting it to work under Linux. 
> This
> involved use of the standard serial_cs kernel module and a CIS file 
> (of which
> I have a copy). The following was added to the PCMCIA configuration to 
> have it
> recognise the card:
>
> card "Sierra Wireless AirCard 550 A550 Rev 1"
> manfid 0x0192, 0xa550
> cis "cis/SW_550_SER.dat"
> bind "serial_cs"
>
>
> How might I go about telling MacOS X.2 to recognise the card as a 
> standard
> PC Card serial modem, and maybe to use the CIS file? I figure that if I
> get that in place, getting modem scripts to run PPP over it should be
> easy...
>
> TIA for any pointers!
>
>     ~Iain
>
>
>
>
>
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