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PostPosted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 3:09 am    Post subject: How-To: EVDO on Gentoo Linux Reply with quote

Updated post 2007-12-29

The how-to has been updated to reflect recent changes. I have added the section on adding the option or airprime module for use with usb-serial and your EVDO devices.

This how-to will discuss how to get EVDO on Gentoo Linux. Specifically Verizon EVDO using the Keyocera KPC650 EVDO PCMCIA card.

Most if not all EVDO PCMCIA cards are just serial modems with usb-serial hardware. So they basically just show up as USB devices. They could have just been serial devices but I guess it's easier in windows to make it a USB device that converts to/from serial, maybe it's easier to write drivers for or easier to work with. But it makes it relatively easy for us to support it in Linux.

On a personal note, I remember being a geek kid around 10 or 12 owning my dad's second hand laptop and thinking I was the coolest! Well I saw in some movie, tv or magazine cellular modems. I thought how cool would that be, to have internet anywhere. Throughout the years anywhere/anytime internet was obtainable for the common man but dialing up via cell cost way too much for me in my teens (I'm 22 now and have a full time job). So when I got my job, and Verizon reduced the price of EVDO from $80 to $60 I instantly went out and bought the service. My childhood dream came true.

Wow I'm a geek.

Anyways....


Contents
1. Add usb-serial generic driver support in the kernel.
2. Add the option or airprime module
3. Add ppp to your kernel and emerge ppp
4. create ppp scripts
5. Reboot and insert PCMCIA card
6. Calling and connecting

Important Notes
Make sure to activate your EVDO PCMCIA card using the included Windows software. It is required! Borrow someone's laptop like I did. Once this is done and tested in Windows, it will be recognized by the EVDO network no matter what OS its in.

Disclaimer
This guide is as complete as I can make it. I will probably add and correct some things as time goes on, or as people add them. If i have made any errors or any mistakes please let me know and feel free to e-mail me/PM me for help. Making how-to's more accurate helps everyone.

1. Add usb-serial generic driver support in the kernel.
Code:

Symbol: USB_SERIAL_GENERIC [=y]
Prompt: USB Generic Serial Driver
  Defined at drivers/usb/serial/Kconfig:46
  Depends on: USB && USB_SERIAL
  Location:
    -> Device Drivers
      -> USB support
        -> USB Serial Converter support
          -> USB Serial Converter support (USB_SERIAL [=m])


2. Add the option or airprime module

Either the airprime or option kernel modules will be used in conjunction with the usb-serial module in order to control your EVDO card. The current trend in the most recent kernel is that most modern devices (including USB devices like the U720/722) are added to the option module while the airprime module seems to be slowly phased out and by default seems to support only the KPC650 PCMCIA card. This is seems to be an uncoordinated effort and things change quickly.

You could technically add both drivers and one of them will have the matching USB vendor ID/Device ID in it for your device and load. You can check the drivers to see which ID's are in which module. Generally speaking it is safe to add both if you want to be lazy. The option module also supports many GSM cards which are not covered in this how-to as I do not have any to test with.

Code:

  Location:
    -> Device Drivers
      -> USB support
        -> USB Serial Converter support
          -> USB AirPrime CDMA Wireless Driver
or       -> USB driver for GSM and CDMA modems (Option driver)


3. Add ppp to your kernel and emerge ppp

Add PPP support:
Code:

Symbol: PPP [=m]
Prompt: PPP (point-to-point protocol) support
  Defined at drivers/net/Kconfig:2426
  Depends on: NETDEVICES
  Location:
    -> Device Drivers
      -> Network device support
        -> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y])



Add PPP support for async serial ports:
Code:

Symbol: PPP_ASYNC [=m]
Prompt: PPP support for async serial ports
  Defined at drivers/net/Kconfig:2482
  Depends on: NETDEVICES && PPP
  Location:
    -> Device Drivers
      -> Network device support
        -> Network device support (NETDEVICES [=y])
          -> PPP (point-to-point protocol) support (PPP [=m])
  Selects: CRC_CCITT


Emerge ppp:
Code:
emerge ppp


Important Note
Add ppp_async to your /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 and it should auto-load the modules dependencies on reboot. Or just modprobe it for now.

4. create ppp scripts
Since I use the Verizon EVDO service they will be named as such. Feel free to rename.
in /etc/ppp/peers/ we will create three scripts:
verizon verizon-connect verizon-disconnect

verizon
Code:

#the USB serial device of the EVDO PCMCIA card.
tts/USB0
#your login information
user YOUR_TEN_DIDGET_CELL_PHONE_NUMBER@vzw3g.com
230400 # speed
#debug
defaultroute # use the cellular network for the default route
usepeerdns # use the DNS servers from the remote network
-detach # keep pppd in the foreground
crtscts # hardware flow control
#lock # lock the serial port
noauth # don't expect the modem to authenticate itself
connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/peers/verizon-connect"
disconnect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/peers/verizon-disconnect"


I changed the verizon-connect script to be a valid working script. This is my actual script that I use to connect with my Keyocera KPC650.

verizon-connect
Code:

#time out is 20 because sometimes the card takes a little while to initalize
TIMEOUT 20
ABORT 'BUSY'
ABORT 'NO ANSWER'
ABORT 'NO CARRIER'
SAY 'Starting Verizon\n'

'' 'AT'
'OK' 'ATQ0V1E0'
'OK' 'ATZ'
'OK' 'AT&F'
# Dial the number
SAY 'Connecting...\n'
'OK' 'ATDT#777'
CONNECT CLIENT


verizon-disconnect
Code:

"" "\K"
"" "+++ATH0"
SAY "Disconnected from Verizon."


5. Reboot and insert PCMCIA card
Now you should reboot with your new patched kernel, with your modules auto-loading.

Insert your PCMCIA card and look at your dmesg output, it should be similar to mine:

Code:

pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
PCI: Enabling device 0000:04:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:04:00.0 to 64
ohci_hcd 0000:04:00.0: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:04:00.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 6
ohci_hcd 0000:04:00.0: irq 17, io mem 0x42000000
hub 6-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 6-0:1.0: 1 port detected
PCI: Enabling device 0000:04:00.1 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.1[b] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:04:00.1 to 64
ohci_hcd 0000:04:00.1: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:04:00.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 7
ohci_hcd 0000:04:00.1: irq 17, io mem 0x42001000
hub 7-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 7-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[i]usb 6-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
usbserial_generic 6-1:1.0: generic converter detected
usb 6-1: generic converter now attached to ttyUSB0
usbserial_generic 6-1:1.1: generic converter detected
usb 6-1: generic converter now attached to ttyUSB1


Important Note
ttyUSB0 is the device we put in the PPP scripts. If you have other usb-serial devices this will be different (maybe USB1 or USB2 etc).

6. Calling and connecting
As root just type
Code:
pppd call verizon
and you should connect to the EVDO service.

That should be it!
I expect there to be some error or mistake on my part above. If i have not explained something clearly or left something out, contact me and I will make edits.
Thanks!
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 4:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 2:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Awesome, I will be trying this out tomorrow! I tried this in Ubuntu and failed miserably due to the disconnects. Thanks in advance!!
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:56 am    Post subject: thanks Reply with quote

thanks alot for the guide. also, thanks to the gentoo newsletter pointing me to this howto. I've been running windows on my laptop for a couple of months now since i got VZW evdo, which i really need, and I haven't had the time to really investigate how to get it woking with the kernel. if this works you are my new hero. I feel like a traitor every time i hear the windows start up chimes. I'll edit this when i get it working . . .

on a similar note, has anyone tried the evdo antenna they sell on evdo-coverage.com? does it really make a difference/worth the money?
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi there- Great post - not a lot of info readily available and this helped a ton.

I'm able to follow the instructions identically, however when I "pppd call verizon" (yes, I set my phone number correctly) I can't connect.

The logs are as follows:
Code:

Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] timeout set to 60 seconds
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] abort on (BUSY)
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] abort on (NO ANSWER)
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] abort on (NO CARRIER)
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] send (AT^M)
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] expect (OK)
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] AT^M^M
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] OK
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] -- got it_
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] send (ATQ0V1E0^M)
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] expect (OK)
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] ^M
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] ATQ0V1E0^M^M
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] OK
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] -- got it_
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] send (ATZ^M)
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] timeout set to 60 seconds
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] abort on (BUSY)
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] abort on (NO ANSWER)
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] abort on (NO CARRIER)
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] send (AT^M)
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] expect (OK)
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] ^M
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] OK
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] -- got it_
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] send (ATQ0V1E0^M)
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] expect (OK)
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] ^M
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] AT^M^M
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] OK
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] -- got it_
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] send (ATZ^M)
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] expect (OK)
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] ^M
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] ATQ0V1E0^M^M
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] OK
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] -- got it_
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] send (AT&F^M)
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] expect (OK)
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] ^M
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] OK
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] -- got it_
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] send (ATDT#777^M)
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] expect (CONNECT)
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] ^M
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] AT&F^M^M
Feb  7 22:10:44 [chat] OK^M
Feb  7 22:10:46 [chat] ATDT#777^M^M
Feb  7 22:10:46 [chat] CONNECT
Feb  7 22:10:46 [chat] -- got it_
Feb  7 22:10:46 [chat] send (CLIENT^M)
Feb  7 22:10:46 [chat] expect (OK)
Feb  7 22:10:46 [chat] ^M
Feb  7 22:11:42 [chat] ^M
Feb  7 22:11:42 [chat] NO CARRIER
Feb  7 22:11:42 [chat] -- failed
Feb  7 22:11:42 [chat] Failed (NO CARRIER)


Any Ideas on what I might be doing wrong? I'm getting great performance out of windows so I'm fairly sure the card is configured correctly.

Thanks,
John
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Update:

While the instructions in this How-To were largely on the mark for me, I hit a couple stmbling blocks on my way to getting it working. Below are the issues / solutions I came up with.

Note: running gentoo-sources 2.6.15.r1 on an IBM ThinkPad T40 using Verizon service with a Kyocera KPC650 card.

First, the verizon-connect script above wasn't working for me. After some research and poking around I am using this script which is working great:
Code:

SAY 'Starting Verizon\n'
TIMEOUT 120
ABORT 'BUSY'
ABORT 'NO ANSWER'
ABORT 'NO CARRIER'
'' 'ATZ'
'OK' 'AT&F0'
'OK' 'ATE0v1'
'' 'AT+CSQ'
'OK' 'ATDT#777'
'CONNECT'


Next, it seems that this card uses USB OHCI (insert and run lspci -v | grep prog-if) so you need the OHCI module (ohci_usb). I have EHCI and UHCI compiled into my kernel, but here is the relevent part of my /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel2.6
Code:

usbserial vendor=0x0c88 product=0x17da maxSize=2048
ppp_asynch
pci_hotplug
acpi_php
yenta_socket
pcmcia_core
pcmcia
ohci-hcd


Finally, the patch file bailed on the second merge. This is minor and easy to edit / fix by hand. Just look for the line number and replace the appropriate line.

This is working great now. No sudden disconnects, decent speed. I'll post again as I optimize.

Best of luck-

John
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 18, 2006 7:12 am    Post subject: Re: thanks Reply with quote

rmmst49 wrote:
thanks alot for the guide. also, thanks to the gentoo newsletter pointing me to this howto. I've been running windows on my laptop for a couple of months now since i got VZW evdo, which i really need, and I haven't had the time to really investigate how to get it woking with the kernel. if this works you are my new hero. I feel like a traitor every time i hear the windows start up chimes. I'll edit this when i get it working . . .

on a similar note, has anyone tried the evdo antenna they sell on evdo-coverage.com? does it really make a difference/worth the money?


I haven't tried it, but I'm considering buying one. What's amusing about that site is that they go on and on about how their competitors tend to overprice the products being sold, yet do the same :).

I found the arc antenna at http://www.mobilecityonline.com/wireless/store/accessorydetail.asp?id=19240 for $24 and the pigtail elsewhere for $6. (Think Froogle, but be sure you look at the vendor's ratings as well.)

If you really do get something like a 6-10dBi gain, it's definitely worth it and $30 is a whole lot less painful than the $80 those guys want.
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 4:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I changed the verizon-connect script to be the script I use to connect via my Keyocera KPC650, instead of a generic script that actually did not work.

The rest of the scripts were cut and pastes of my own.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:00 pm    Post subject: How about Knoppix? Reply with quote

I ran across this thread while trying to make my Kyocera KPC650 (on the Alltel network, but just resold from Verizon) work under Knoppix 4 and decided to see if your approach could work.

Step 1: add usb serial driver to kernel. I'm pretty sure that Knoppix already has that. I added the product ID and vendor ID's with the following commands:
sudo insmod /lib/modules/2.6.12/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/usbserial.ko
sudo insmod /lib/modules/2.6.12/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/ipaq.ko vendor=0x0c88 product=0x17da maxsize=2048 (though dmesg doesn't know what to make of the maxSize parameter. "ipaq: Unknown parameter 'maxSize'")

dmesg shows the card as having ttyUSB0 and ttyUSB1 ports.

Step 2: Knoppix already has PPP.

Step 3: create scripts. I copied the scripts to the /etc/ppp/peers directory. In the verizon script, I adjusted it to show ttyUSB0 and phonenumber@alltel.net. I tried your verizon-connect and jwoolf's version of it too.

When I issue the command pppd connect verizon, I get the message:
Starting Verizon
Connect script failed

Where are the logs written, so that I can do a post-mortem to see where it dies?

Thanks
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:34 pm    Post subject: refinement to using Knoppix Reply with quote

Here is where I am so far:
Step 1: add usb serial driver to kernel.

sudo insmod /lib/modules/2.6.12/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/usbserial.ko vendor=0x0c88 product=0x17da (still don't know what to do about the maxSize parameter).

dmesg shows the card as having ttyUSB0 and ttyUSB1 ports.

I tried using kppp under KDE. I made a symlink to /dev/modem at KNOPPIX => Network/Internet => /dev/modem connection setup.
Next, I went to KPPP and set up an account/modem combo that dials #777 and uses the init string from the script mentioned earlier in this thread. I set up the security as PAP, with the phonenumber@sprintpcs.com and password.
I can dial and connect to the internet quite well, but the dang connection keeps dropping after a few minutes.

Any ideas?

Thanks
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:08 pm    Post subject: Re: refinement to using Knoppix Reply with quote

HROLFGANG wrote:
Here is where I am so far:
Step 1: add usb serial driver to kernel.

sudo insmod /lib/modules/2.6.12/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/usbserial.ko vendor=0x0c88 product=0x17da (still don't know what to do about the maxSize parameter).

dmesg shows the card as having ttyUSB0 and ttyUSB1 ports.

I tried using kppp under KDE. I made a symlink to /dev/modem at KNOPPIX => Network/Internet => /dev/modem connection setup.
Next, I went to KPPP and set up an account/modem combo that dials #777 and uses the init string from the script mentioned earlier in this thread. I set up the security as PAP, with the phonenumber@sprintpcs.com and password.
I can dial and connect to the internet quite well, but the dang connection keeps dropping after a few minutes.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Brian

I had same problems on verizon (with debian distro, but I don't think that matters), you have to add these two lines, they fixed that problem for me:
lcp-echo-failure 4
lcp-echo-interval 65535
add them before connect line
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 12:00 am    Post subject: Kyocera kpc650 usbserial driver hangs system Reply with quote

I followed the Gentoo EVDO KPC650 wiki directions
and my aircard works generally OK so long as I do not
browse to sites with large fancy graphics and do not
download large files, e.g. `emerge sync`

I submitted a bug report to kernel.org:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6425

and they inform me that the generic usbserial driver has no flow
control code to deal with large data transfers and that I should
therefore write my own driver if I don't want to crash my system
when performing large data transfers.


Anyhope of Verizon/Kyocera writing linux drivers?
It's really a shame that linux lacks a driver for this card;
it blows away the other pcmcia-modem cards. I had a
Xingular gc83 aircard but had no reception out here in
the countryside. I asked Xingular's technical support if
they had an antennae booster for the card but they informed
me there was no such thing so I had to cancel the service.
When Verizon introduced the EVDO service I signed up and
have always had excellent reception with the big antenna
booster which comes with the kpc650.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 24, 2006 2:56 am    Post subject: A little more info from FC4 Reply with quote

Found this link from FC4 with similar issue about big downloads
not working with usbserial driver:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/usb/msg05290.html
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 2:42 am    Post subject: Card Not Being Detected? Reply with quote

Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated. I have a thinkpad t43p.

thanks,
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gleb ~ # uname -a
Linux gleb 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 #4 PREEMPT Thu Jun 1 20:17:16 PDT 2006 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.13GHz GNU/Linux

gleb ~ # gzcat /proc/config.gz

<snip>

#
# Bus options (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, MCA, ISA)
#
CONFIG_PCI=y
# CONFIG_PCI_GOBIOS is not set
# CONFIG_PCI_GOMMCONFIG is not set
# CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT is not set
CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG=y
CONFIG_PCIEPORTBUS=y
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_PCIE=y
# CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_PCIE_POLL_EVENT_MODE is not set
# CONFIG_PCI_MSI is not set
CONFIG_PCI_LEGACY_PROC=y
CONFIG_ISA_DMA_API=y
CONFIG_ISA=y
# CONFIG_EISA is not set
# CONFIG_MCA is not set
# CONFIG_SCx200 is not set

#
# PCCARD (PCMCIA/CardBus) support
#
CONFIG_PCCARD=y
# CONFIG_PCMCIA_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_PCMCIA=y
CONFIG_PCMCIA_LOAD_CIS=y
CONFIG_PCMCIA_IOCTL=y
CONFIG_CARDBUS=y

#
# PC-card bridges
#
CONFIG_YENTA=y
CONFIG_YENTA_O2=y
CONFIG_YENTA_RICOH=y
CONFIG_YENTA_TI=y
CONFIG_YENTA_ENE_TUNE=y
CONFIG_YENTA_TOSHIBA=y
# CONFIG_PD6729 is not set
# CONFIG_I82092 is not set
# CONFIG_I82365 is not set
# CONFIG_TCIC is not set
CONFIG_PCMCIA_PROBE=y
CONFIG_PCCARD_NONSTATIC=y

#
# PCI Hotplug Support
#
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI=y
# CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_FAKE is not set
# CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_COMPAQ is not set
# CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_IBM is not set
# CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_ACPI is not set
# CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_CPCI is not set
# CONFIG_HOTPLUG_PCI_SHPC is not set

<snip>

gleb ~ # dmesg | grep -A 11 PCI\ Hot
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
pciehp: HPC vendor_id 8086 device_id 2660 ss_vid 0 ss_did 0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
Evaluate _OSC Set fails. Status = 0x0005
Evaluate _OSC Set fails. Status = 0x0005
pciehp: Cannot get control of hotplug hardware for pci 0000:00:1c.0
pciehp: HPC vendor_id 8086 device_id 2664 ss_vid 0 ss_did 0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.2[C] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
Evaluate _OSC Set fails. Status = 0x0005
Evaluate _OSC Set fails. Status = 0x0005
pciehp: Cannot get control of hotplug hardware for pci 0000:00:1c.2
pciehp: PCI Express Hot Plug Controller Driver version: 0.4

gleb ~ # dmesg | grep -A 5 Yenta
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:04:00.0 [1014:056c]
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 5.9, id: 0x2c6ab1, caps: 0x884793/0x0
serio: Synaptics pass-through port at isa0060/serio1/input0
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input1
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x04b8, PCI irq 16
Socket status: 30000820
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0x5000 - 0x8fff
cs: IO port probe 0x5000-0x8fff: clean.
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xa8400000 - 0xb7ffffff
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xd0000000 - 0xd7ffffff

gleb ~ # cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 82603 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 4632 IO-APIC-edge i8042
9: 241 IO-APIC-level acpi
12: 5247 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 4974 IO-APIC-edge libata
15: 12 IO-APIC-edge libata
16: 40517 IO-APIC-level yenta, uhci_hcd:usb2, fglrx
17: 0 IO-APIC-level pciehp
18: 0 IO-APIC-level pciehp, Intel ICH4
20: 2 IO-APIC-level ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb5
21: 24746 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb3
22: 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb4
23: 10420 IO-APIC-level ipw2200
NMI: 0
LOC: 43211
ERR: 0
MIS: 0

gleb ~ # find /sys/bus/pcmcia
/sys/bus/pcmcia
/sys/bus/pcmcia/drivers
/sys/bus/pcmcia/devices

gleb ~ # cat /proc/bus/pccard/drivers


gleb ~ # pccardctl info
PRODID_1=""
PRODID_2=""
PRODID_3=""
PRODID_4=""
MANFID=0000,0000
FUNCID=255

gleb ~ # pcmcia-socket-startup

::nothing changes in dmesg::

::pull the card out::
gleb ~ # dmesg | tail -n 1
pccard: card ejected from slot 0

::put the card back in::
gleb ~ # dmesg | tail -n 1
pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0

gleb ~ # pcmcia-socket-startup
gleb ~ # dmesg | tail -n 1
pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 2:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have you tried the kernel command line option "pci=assign-busses" ?

On the pcmciautils website troubleshooting/FAQ guide there is a
discussion about pci busses and bios. I read it but didn't fully grasp it.
But I had to add the option "pci=assign-busses" to my kernel line in my grub.conf
in order for my Kyocera KPC650 to power up, otherwise the led would not
light up in response to `pccardctl insert`

`pccardctl info` still shows nothing though.
But the card does work so long as you steer clear of large downloads.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 8:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just tried it, to no avail.

I was previously running hotplug, which has since been disabled.

I have some more debug output to add to the list also.

thanks,
Harrison

gleb ~ # lspci -vv | grep -A 13 Ricoh
04:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 8d)
Subsystem: IBM Unknown device 056c
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 168
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 0: Memory at a8400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=04, secondary=05, subordinate=08, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: d0000000-d1fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: aa000000-abfff000
I/O window 0: 00005000-000050ff
I/O window 1: 00005400-000054ff
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- 16bInt- PostWrite+
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

gleb ~ # ps | grep -v grep | grep -v ps | grep udev
1086 ? root /sbin/udevd --daemon

gleb ~ # cat /proc/iomem | grep -A 10 a8400000
a8400000-b7ffffff : PCI Bus #04
a8400000-a8400fff : 0000:04:00.0
a8400000-a8400fff : yenta_socket
a8401000-a8401fff : 0000:04:02.0
a8401000-a8401fff : ipw2200
aa000000-abffffff : PCI CardBus #05
aa000000-aa000fff : 0000:05:00.0
aa001000-aa001fff : 0000:05:00.1
c0000000-c7ffffff : PCI Bus #01
c0000000-c7ffffff : 0000:01:00.0
c8000000-c80fffff : PCI Bus #03
d0000000-d7ffffff : PCI Bus #04
d0000000-d1ffffff : PCI CardBus #05
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 8:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you compile usbserial generic support into kernel or as module?

If you compiled usbserial as module, try

#modprobe usbserial
#lsmod
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 8:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

gleb ~ # modprobe usbserial vendor=0x0c88 product=0x17da
::nothing changes in dmesg::

gleb ~ # lsmod
Module Size Used by
usbserial 26472 0
::some omitted::

The rest is built into the kernel. A friend of mine inserted the card into his system, running 2.6.15 with udev and pcmciautils, and the card received power even without loading usbserial. Once he inserted usbserial with the appropriate flags a device node was built.

thanks,
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 12:43 am    Post subject: airprime+usbserial Reply with quote

Found this out about kpc650 driver:

http://wiki.kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_18http://wiki.kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_18

The "airprime" driver in conjuntion with "usbserial" driver seems to be working just fine
for me on amd64 linux-2.6.17-r4. No system hangs on high bandwidth sites.

I compiled both as modules:
#modprobe usbserial vendor="0x0c88" product="0x17da"
#modprobe airprime

I did not have to do any patching of usbserial drivers.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 12:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi! Anyone got a Ubiquam UM-300 working under linux?
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 10:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for starting this thread. I'm using different hardware w/ a Dell 5700 Wireless card which I believe is a "Novatel Wireless Merlin XV620" if I peeled the Dell sticker off. :-) I'm not a complete newbie to this as I had a Kyocera card working just fine on my previous PCMCIA latptop.

I have all my ppp kernel modules and usb-serial.c patch installed, compiled, and booted. I use the following:
Quote:
modprobe usbserial vendor=0x413c product=0x8117 maxSize=2048

which results in a device /dev/ttyUSB0 (& 1).

My problem seems to be that my ppp chat doesn't seem to recognize that it has a good IP address and instead just terminates the conversation.

Here's my 'verizon script.

Quote:

ttyUSB0
115200
debug
noauth
defaultroute
usepeerdns
connect-delay 10000
user 9255881102@vzw3g.com
show-password
crtscts
lock
lcp-echo-failure 4
lcp-echo-interval 65535
-detach
connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v -t3 -f /etc/ppp/peers/verizon-connect


Here's the verizon-connect chat script:

Quote:

ABORT 'BUSY'
ABORT 'NO ANSWER'
ABORT 'ERROR'
SAY 'Starting Verizon connect script\n'

# Get the modem's attention and reset it.
"" 'ATZ'
# E0=No echo, V1=English result codes
#OK 'ATE0V1'

OK 'ATDT#777'


And Here's the actual conversation.


Quote:

Starting Verizon connect script
Serial connection established.
using channel 1
Using interface ppp0
Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyUSB0
sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xd6577038> <pcomp> <accomp>]
rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap MD5> <magic 0xf006fe6f> <pcomp> <accomp>]
No auth is possible
sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 <auth chap MD5>]
rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xd6577038> <pcomp> <accomp>]
rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <mru 1500> <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xf006fe6f> <pcomp> <accomp>]
sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 <mru 1500> <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0xf006fe6f> <pcomp> <accomp>]
sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0xd6577038]
sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <compress VJ 0f 01> <addr 0.0.0.0> <ms-dns1 0.0.0.0> <ms-dns3 0.0.0.0>]
rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0xf006fe6f]
rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 66.174.52.4>]
sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0x1 <addr 66.174.52.4>]
rcvd [IPCP ConfRej id=0x1 <compress VJ 0f 01>]
sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x2 <addr 0.0.0.0> <ms-dns1 0.0.0.0> <ms-dns3 0.0.0.0>]
rcvd [IPCP ConfNak id=0x2 <ms-dns1 66.174.95.44> <ms-dns3 69.78.96.14>]
sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x3 <addr 0.0.0.0> <ms-dns1 66.174.95.44> <ms-dns3 69.78.96.14>]
rcvd [IPCP ConfAck id=0x3 <addr 0.0.0.0> <ms-dns1 66.174.95.44> <ms-dns3 69.78.96.14>]
Could not determine local IP address
Connect time 0.3 minutes.
Sent 82 bytes, received 58 bytes.
sent [IPCP TermReq id=0x4 "Could not determine local IP address"]
rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x3]
LCP terminated by peer
sent [LCP TermAck id=0x3]
Connection terminated.
Modem hangup


I find it curious that I get an IP addr 66.174.52.4, but ppp seems to think "Could not determine local IP address", and my pppd seems to end the conversation. I'm not very familiar with ppp, but this seems very strange.

Any hints, ideas, suggestions are very welcome.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks nick-oshean for the great help.

I just got hold of a new Canar (Sudan) CDMA2000 card boxed as a Huawei EC500. It detected the card out of the box and within a few minutes I copied the configuration details given by nick-oshean and had it working straight away. I didn't patch the kernel though and haven't experienced any timeouts or disconnects.

I see that the MS Windows software allows you to send SMS (not that I have tried it as I don't have windows). Does anyone know if there is a way to send SMS through Linux using these cards ??

Also, anyway to monitor the signal strength ??
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the guide. I used it for getting a connection through my Samsung i730 with EVDO service. No deviation from the guide needed either.
Though one question remains: Can I get an internal EVDO card for my Dell M1210 and use the same login info as on my i730 phone without having to purchase another data plan from Verizon for the internal card? If anyone has any info on that a reply would be hot.

Thanks agian
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:45 pm    Post subject: No ttyUSB found Reply with quote

I've been trying to get my Merlin S720 to work by following this guide, but with no luck. I get the following messages when I plug in the card.

dmesg | grep airprime
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for airprime
usbcore: registered new interface driver airprime
USB driver airprime lacks resume support.


dmesg
hub 7-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 7-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Device driver usbdev7.1_ep81 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
usb 6-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2
Device driver usbdev6.2_ep00 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
usb 6-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Device driver usbdev6.2_ep81 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
Device driver usbdev6.2_ep82 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
Device driver usbdev6.2_ep02 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
Device driver usbdev6.2_ep84 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
Device driver usbdev6.2_ep04 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
Device driver usbdev6.2_ep85 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
Device driver usbdev6.2_ep05 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
Device driver usbdev6.2_ep86 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
Device driver usbdev6.2_ep06 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.


I'm not sure what might be keeping this from getting a USB assignment. Any suggestions on what I might try or where to look?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 6:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey tacmann, I'd double check your kernel config, I found there was a 3rd option under the USB Serial Drivers that I needed to have enabled in order to get the Sprint card to activate properly. I have it "working" but I still haven't figured out the exact steps that I got working with. This was on a fresh install. I've updated the Merlin S620 wiki entry, and fyi I've used it successfully on the S720 and EX720.
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