[NTLUG:Discuss] Any idea how to get a Sprint EVDO wireless broadband card to

[David Trusty]

Yes, the card works on the very same laptop when I boot into Windows.

I tried also booting from a Knoppix CD.  The Knoppix is version 5, based on 
kernel 2.6.17.
The results are the same as SUSE:  I only get a "cardbus card inserted" 
message, but no
additional modules loaded and no additions to "lspci".

David


>From: ". Daniel" <xdesign at hotmail.com>
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>Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] 
>AnyideahowtogetaSprintEVDOwirelessbroadbandcardto
>Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 08:15:33 -0500
>
>Yeah, I'll be happy to tell my tale.  Part of it is on this very list.  I
>was confused about a great many aspects of getting the thing running.  I'll
>try to write it up as a how-to, but mostly, it'll be a "how I did."  Your
>configuration seems to be lacking the most crucial part of the thing --
>recognition by the machine/OS.
>
>I will try to write this up today some time while I'm at the office.  But
>the quick answer the latter:
>
>I use Fedora Core 5.  I used instructions intended for Ubuntu.  (I posted
>the link on a previous comment somewhere back there.)  I got some good help
>from this very list on how to trouble-shoot and all that, but it all
>started with the device working and being recognized.
>
>After having not thought about your problem for some time, I have a little
>more perspective on the problem.  You say it works under Windows.  Is that
>Windows on the SAME machine?  I hope it is... it would serve to help
>eliminate hardware as the problem.  If it's not, we might want to spend a
>little time investigating to see if the host hardware isn't the problem.
>
>My device shows up as /dev/ttyUSB0.  I have read other sites claiming that
>it appears as /dev/ttyACM0.  The previous "Merlin" card did that... I have
>one of those too.  I never attempted to make it "work" under Linux.  I just
>stuck it in my laptop to see what Linux would report it as being.  The same
>goes for this Sprint EVDO card... I just stuck it in to see what Linux
>would report.  It reported /dev/ttyUSB0.
>
>Your diagnotics aren't even getting you that far, I'm afraid.  I'm hesitant
>to suggest changing distros as I'm still having a hard time wrapping my
>mind around the idea that the "specialness" of a distro's custom kernel
>would enable or disable the use of various hardware.  I have never
>personally witnessed that problem, though I can say that I'm impressed with
>the way Knoppix IDs and sets up hardware.  (That's why I suggested trying
>to boot from Knoppix to see what the OS reports about your hardware.)
>
>I can't really write a "how to" on detecting hardware.  But here's the
>short-answer of what I did:
>
>1. Insert PCMCIA card.
>2. Check the "dmesg | tail" to see what device came up.
>3. ...start setting up the ppp connection settings...
>
>All the stuff I did in step 3 is worth writing about.  I didn't have any
>problems in steps 1 and 2 though... and as far as I can tell, that's where
>you're stuck.  BTW, do you have any other PCMCIA devices that work?  Do
>they work in that machine under Linux?
>
>
 >
> >Daniel , can you do a how to as to how you accomplished the task here ?
> >And what distro you have done this with ?
> >