[ltp] Re: Desperate to get my PCMCIA GPRS working please :(

[Daniel Pittman]

On 20 Jan 2005, Bob Alexander wrote:
> Daniel Pittman wrote:
>> I note you didn't include the output of 'cardmgr info', which would be
>> helpful, since that would tell me exactly what the kernel PCMCIA layer
>> thought about the card in question.
>
> Daniel,
> awaiting your response I went ahead and installed the pcmcia-cs package.
> Everything went back working as expected. Cardmgr creates loads the 
> serial_cs module and also makes udev create the /dev/ttyS2 and related 
> /dev/modem link.
>
> wvdial works aok.
>
> Tried uninstalling pcmcia-cs and again silence is total !!!
>
> I therefore suspect that there is a bug in hotplug.

Sounds like a bug there, or in the kernel.

> I am afraid that I do not have enough skills to file a decent bug though
>
> What would you advise ?

Contact the upstream developers of hotplug and find out if they expect
it to work and, if so, what debug information they want to resolve it.

You can always help out by offering to debug stuff, if someone can tell
you what you need to do for them.  

I have done this a few times myself when I couldn't learn the innards of
a huge package just to file a useful bug report.

Regards,
        Daniel
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