Anders Andersson wrote: > I like old PCMCIA cards, and would like to get a serial card to work > on a Thinkpad X40 running Debian 12.5. > > The card is just called "Serial I/O PC Card" and should be physically > and electrically compatible, 3.3V/5V, 16 bit. I think it is this: > https://shop.ocr.ca/media/pdf/Socket-Mobile/srliopc.pdf > > It didn't immediately work when I inserted it, and instead of spending > hours following the red herring down the rabbit hole I thought I > should try asking here first for a change. This is what I get from > dmesg: > > [ 331.059401] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: pccard: PCMCIA card > inserted into slot 0 > [ 331.059429] pcmcia_socket pcmcia_socket0: cs: memory probe > 0xd8200000-0xdf9fffff: > [ 331.060446] excluding 0xd8980000-0xd90fffff 0xdaf00000-0xdb67ffff > 0xdbe00000-0xdc57ffff 0xdcd00000-0xdd47ffff 0xddc00000-0xde37ffff > 0xdeb00000-0xdf27ffff > [ 331.068677] pcmcia (null): pcmcia: registering new device > pcmcia(null) (IRQ: 3) > [ 331.141504] orinoco 0.15 (David Gibson > <her...@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <pro...@gnu.org>, et al) > [ 331.197037] spectrum_cs 0.0: Failed to initialize firmware (err = -16) > [ 331.197062] spectrum_cs: orinoco_init() failed > > When I searched for "spectrum_cs" and "orinico" I got a lot of results > for some PC Card WLAN interface, which isn't right. Does anyone > recognize this? It should have a bog-standard 16550 compatible UART > and PCMCIA is more or less an ISA bus so I did not foresee any > problem. Is it perhaps incorrectly detecting my card as a WLAN card?
It is definitely recognizing your card incorrectly; I have a couple of those orinocos about. (Lucent 802.11b wifi, the first mass-market chipset for wifi. $150 each when they first came out.) This might be a useful doc for you -- in particular, section 4.4 on serial and modem devices: https://tldp.org/HOWTO/PCMCIA-HOWTO-4.html -dsr-
