Re: [iPAQ] Do any pcmcia modems work?

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, D.A.Johnston wrote:

>
> Having just discovered Familiar I have been playing
> with getting the iPAQ to talk to the world. Ethernet cards
> and CF cards have all happily worked, however
> PCMCIA modems seem to be a bit more recalcitrant.
>
> Can any PCMCIA modem cards be made to work with Familiar v0.4?
> I find serial drivers load OK, but cardctl reckons the cards
> (a Targa and a Psion) are busy on insertion. In addition,
> the stock "serial" command in /etc/pcmcia uses "setserial",
> is there any equivalent in familiar?

I have a Pretec CF modem (which I use in a PCMCIA adapter for battery
purposes) which works perfectly in Familiar. It appears as /dev/ttyS0.

I bought it last year from a place down Tottenham Court Road.

> I had previously tried a German distribution - Lisa mLinux 0.9
> with similar results.
>
> Des Johnston

Cheers
Richard
Received on Mon Sep 10 14:11:32 2001