xircom combo card + kernel 2.4.5

[Ivan Fernandez Pelaez <ivan.fernandez.pelaez@vanderbilt.edu>]

Hi,

I've got a Xircom CBEM56G modem/ethernet card, which used to work fine
under 2.2.x kernels and the standard pcmcia-cs package. For other
reasons, I've had to upgrade to 2.4 and was trying to get it to work
with the pcmcia drivers included in the kernel. In my laptop, the new
kernel pcmcia only seems to work with the yenta_socket driver, so I set
that in /etc/pcmcia.conf, and I also included an alias linking tulip_cb
to xircom_tulip_cb, the name of the driver module for the card in the
new kernels. The pcmcia subsystem seems to work fine, it recognizes the
card and loads the xircom_tulip_cb module, but it does not seem run the
/etc/pcmcia/ config scripts, so the modem (that's the only thing I can
test now) does not get bound to the serial port, if I try to use it I'm
unable to open the serial device.

I'm using potato plus the 2.4 updates at
http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian including the hotplug package, but
I don't know if I should do any more configuration, remove pcmcia-cs (I
have another card that needs it) or what.

I was also trying with kernel 2.4.5, which does not have a separate
serial_cb driver. From what I've read in mailing lists, the standard
serial modules should handle the pcmcia modem, but I don't know how to
do this either. Has anyone managed to get this thing working?

Thanks

-- 
Ivan Fernández
ivan.fernandez@vanderbilt.edu