Re: PCMCIA serial CardBus support vanished in 2.4.3-pre3 and later

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
>
>  2.4.3-pre3 and synced-up versions of the -ac series remove support for
>  PCMCIA serial CardBus. In drivers/char/pcmcia the Makefile and Config.in
>  files are modified to exclude serial_cb and the serial_cb.c file itself
>  is removed by the patch. As a net result, my Xircom modem port becomes
>  invisible to the kernel and I can't dial out through it.

The regular serial.c should handle it natively. Just make sure you have
CONFIG_SERIAL enabled, along with hotplugging support etc.

		Linus