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

[Iain M. <Ds...@Ds...>]

Hi Rob,

Thanks for the info - it helps a bit; ie. I now know that it's not as
simple as dropping the CIS file somewhere, tweaking a config file or
two and rebooting :(

Cheers,

    ~Iain



On Sun, 25 May 2003, Rob McKeever wrote:

> 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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