Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422700AbXAMPmk (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:42:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422699AbXAMPmk (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:42:40 -0500 Received: from twin.jikos.cz ([213.151.79.26]:51390 "EHLO twin.jikos.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422700AbXAMPmj (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:42:39 -0500 Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:41:19 +0100 (CET) From: Jiri Kosina X-X-Sender: jikos@twin.jikos.cz To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cc: Pavel Machek , Charles Majola , Patrick McFarland Subject: [announce] ipwireless_cs 3G PCMCIA network driver Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2039 Lines: 44 Hi, there was some discussion some time ago on lkml about the driver for the ipwireless 3G UMTS (in some countries, such as Czech Republic, this is shipped under the name "4G UMTS") PCMCIA card [1] I have taken the old driver written by guys at Symmetric Systems and ported it to the current kernel, modified a code layout a bit, removed some dead code, etc. I have established a git tree [2] for this driver, as it needs considerable amount of work the be acceptable to mainline (not only due to functionality problems with V3 (see below), but also CodingStyle, migrating the driver to use in-kernel linked lists, etc etc) and testing by other people owning the hardware will also help. There is a little confusion regarding the hardware - there used to be V1 and V2 cards (which require some little differences in handling). With these card types, the driver seems to work well. Then ipwireless company produced version V3 of the card. (sadly, IDs of the card didn't change, only firmware seems to be modified). This is for example the card that T-Mobile is currently shipping by default for the 4G UMTS service (or at least in Czech Republic). This card is correctly detected by this driver, is able to send and receive AT commands, dial and connect, but after the ppp connection is established, the LCP frames that the card is passing to the driver are broken (one byte per frame). We are currently trying, together with authors of original driver, to identify an exact cause of this behavior (seems like PPP framer on the card is somehow misconfigured or unitialized). Any testers are welcome. Thanks. [1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/16/31 [2] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/ipwireless_cs.git, ipw-devel branch -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/