Hopefully this will catch someone in a helpful mood. Right now, there is no way for anyone to use Sierra Wireless (standard handout from Verizon/Sprint) cellular cards with OpenWRT on the Broadcom 47xx platform. Although it seems Linksys ported sierra.c over from the linux-2.6 (as evidenced by sierra.o in the official 2.09 firmware), the only publicly available copy I can find is for 2.6. For whatever reasons, it seems nico (maybe others) blocked 2.6 PCMCIA support for the 47xx, producing a mutual exclusion that prevents usage of the WRT54G3G to any effectiveness.
I've stumbled about in the build system enough to get pcmcia-cs and the relevant kernel modules built, and even 'ported' nbd's kamikaze_7.09/target/linux/brcm-2.4/patches/009-wrt54g3g_pcmcia.patch over to 2.6, but yenta_socket still shows an Oops and obviously doesn't work. I'm reaching the limits of my immediate capability, and am not sure what else to 'fix'. Attached is the brain-dead port of the PCMCIA patch I made; anyone see any problems with it?
pcmcia-2.6.patch
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