Identifying PCMCIA modems

Identifying PCMCIA modems

[Ian Pilcher]

A fairly basic question for which Google provided no help...

Is there any straightforward way to identify a PCMCIA card as a modem?
(No jokes about reading the label please.)

I've got a rule written using the SYSFS{manf_id} and SYSFS{card_id} of
my modem, but I'd like to make it more general.

Thanks!

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Ian Pilcher                                        i.pilcher@comcast.net
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Re: Identifying PCMCIA modems

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

Ian Pilcher wrote:
> A fairly basic question for which Google provided no help...
> 
> Is there any straightforward way to identify a PCMCIA card as a modem?
> (No jokes about reading the label please.)
> 
> I've got a rule written using the SYSFS{manf_id} and SYSFS{card_id} of
> my modem, but I'd like to make it more general.

Wild guess for a rule that matches all PCMCIA serial ports and thus all hardware 
PCMCIA modems (but I have no PCMCIA devices, so no guarantees):

DRIVER="serial-cs", SYMLINK+="pcmcia-modem"

Of course that's oversimplified and doesn't work for the case where there are 
two modems.

There is no generic way to identify PCMCIA winmodems.

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Re: Identifying PCMCIA modems

[Kay Sievers]

On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 07:50 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> A fairly basic question for which Google provided no help...
> 
> Is there any straightforward way to identify a PCMCIA card as a modem?
> (No jokes about reading the label please.)
> 
> I've got a rule written using the SYSFS{manf_id} and SYSFS{card_id} of
> my modem, but I'd like to make it more general.

Usually you look at the CIS:
  http://www.pcmcia.org/pccard.htm#04

So SYSFS{func_id} may indicate a serial port. Don't know how reliable
that information is in reality.

You may want to ask the guys here for specifics:
   http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pcmcia

Kay



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