Since there's a lot of changes from pcmcia-cs to pcmciautils, pcmcia operation suppose to be easier because it now work with hotplug. That mean when the card got inserted to the laptop, linux will just recognize it in a zap. But that's just doesn't work for sierra aircard 555 while you using suse 10. To make your aircard 555 work on suse 10, you need to fiddle around a bit with linux kernel. Owww and you will need you kernel source because we need to recompile the serial_cs module! First, make sure when you insert the card to pcmcia slot and the pcmciautils recognize your card type "pccardctl info" then you should get following output on your shell ong@saintlucifer:~> pccardctl status Socket 0: command 'status' not yet handled by pccardctl o3ng@saintlucifer:~> pccardctl info PRODID_1="Sierra Wireless" PRODID_2="AirCard 555" PRODID_3="A555" PRODID_4="Rev 1" MANFID=0192,a555 FUNCID=6 Then you need to get Aircard
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