OK, I put the PCMCIA Huawei E630 Turbo3G card back in the machine and
played around with it. Here are my findings:
First, the PCMCIA Socket Controller does not seem to change any of its
settings with the card inserted -- IRQ Level, DMA Channel, Memory
notebook page controls are all blank, I/O ports show "0x3E1-0x3E4
Address Lines: 16 EXC" regardless of whether the card is inserted or
not.
Second, the PCMCIA Auto Configurator does not list this card (of
course.)
Third, The Plug & Play for PCMCIA does recognize that a card has been
inserted but Product Information is lacking. It seems to be recognized
as a Memory card and the Status is In. Card Services show the
following resources:
<IRQ>
3,4,5,7,9,10
<Memory>
D500 - DBFF
E100 - E1FF
Resources show:
<Vendor>
IBM OS/2 PCMCIA Card Services Device Driver Version 1.56.
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1992 - 1998.
All Rights Reserved.
<Release>
2.00
<Revision>
1.56
Client shows:
[Client] 1/4
<Type> I/O client
<Handle> 07F4
<Revision> 02.07
<Year> 1996
<Month> 11
<Day> 20
<Card Services level> 02.00
<Client name>
IBM OS/2 PC Card Power Management Driver Version 2.08.
<Vendor string>
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1993, 1994, 1995 all right reserved
[Client] 2/4
<Type> Memory Technology Driver
<Handle> 0A2E
<Revision> 01.00
<Year> 1993
<Month> 2
<Day> 16
<Card Services level> 02.00
<Client name>
IBM OS/2 PCMCIA Card Services Default MTD for SRAM/Non-SRAM PC memory
card.
<Vendor string>
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1993. All Rights Reserved.
[Client] 3/4
<Type> Memory client
<Handle> 0A54
<Revision> 01.00
<Year> 1993
<Month> 2
<Day> 16
<Card Services level> 02.00
<Client name>
IBM OS/2 PCMCIA Card Services MTDHelper.
<Vendor string>
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1993. All Rights Reserved.
[Client] 4/4
<Type> Memory client
<Handle> 07CE
<Revision> 02.00
<Year> 1995
<Month> 5
<Day> 22
<Card Services level> 02.00
<Client name>
IBM OS/2 PC Card Auto Configurator Version 2.00
<Vendor string>
(C) Copyright IBM Corporation 1995. All rights reserved.
Hard to tell if the above is good or bad.
Finally, all notebook controls in the USB Resource Manager program are
blank (except the settings for the program itself.
My conclusion is that the PCMCIA card controller recognizes that the
card has been inserted but does not recognize the card properly, thus
the USB controller also does not recognize it.
I do not have another opportunity to test the Huawei USB Turbo3G card
which may be easier to get to work.
Ideas anyone?
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:33:35 -0400, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
>Hi, Hakan...
>
>On 08/21/07 02:00 pm, Hakan thus wrote :
>> I am testing a PCMCIA-based E630 Huawei Turbo3G modem in my TP under
>> eCS. Needless to say it does not work but I am looking into solutions
>> for Linux etc. Judging from
>> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Huawei_E630_HSDPA_Data_card, this PCMCIA
>> card has its own USB controller which the UMTS/HSDPA capabilities are
>> connected to. A USB-serial converter is also needed. My understanding
>> is that if eCS identifies this USB controller and I have a USB-serial
>> converter, I should be able to use a PPP program to connect to the
>> 'net.
>>
>> I also had a very brief opportunity to test an external USB-based
>> Huawei E220 UTMS/HSDPA modem in the same TP. Based on the blinking
>> light, the USB unit seemed to connect to the 3G network and with the
>> USB driver in my TP. Too late I discovered a webpage which explained
>> that any serial communication program can be used to control the modem
>> whereupon a PPP program is used for the internet connection.
>>
>> Two questions:
>> * How can I verify that the PCMCIA E630 modem is properly
>> identified under eCS and connected and whether the USB stack under eCS
>> has also identified the card?
>> * How can verify that the USB stack under eCS has properly
>> identified and connected with the E220 modem?
>> * Is a USB-serial driver part of the vanilla USB stack under
>> eCS?
>>
>>
>Actually, those are three questions, but who's counting? :-)
>
>To the last one, USBSER.SYS is the USB serial driver, and it is included
>in USBSER.EXE, known as the USB Serial Converter Driver. It is available
>from www.ecomstation.com (latest version there is 10.119, dated
>10-20-2003). From the download area:
>
>The USBSER.EXE driver package provides support for USB Serial Converters
>on the OS/2 Operating System.
>
>USB Serial Converter Support
>
>The USBSER.EXE driver package includes the OS/2 USB Serial Converter
>Driver (USBSER.SYS) that supports the following types of vendor specific
>USB Serial Converters:
>
> * FTDI FT8U100AX chip asynchronous serial port 1 (Future Technology
> Devices International Ltd.),
> * Belkin F5U103 USB serial adapter,
> * MCT USB to RS232 converter (Magic Control Technology Corp.).
>
>There is a list of supported and tested USB Serial Converters:
>
> * USB Serial Converter on IBM Multi-Port USB Hub (part number 00N8216)
> * Belkin F5U103 USB Serial Adapter
> * USB Serial Adapter on Belkin F5U116 USB Multi-Port Hub
> * USB Serial Adapter on Belkin F5U120 USB DockStation
> * D-Link DU-CS/DSB-S25 USB to Serial Converter Cable
> * Belkin F5U109 USB PDA Adapter (IBM model name 10K3822)
>
>I don't know if this will properly access the chipset in the device you
>want to use, however.
>
>In order to determine what the USB stack is seeing, try the USB Resource
>Manager and then I would try poking around at it with a terminal session...
>
>HTH
>
>--
>Lewis
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