Bug#105451: update
[please retain the CC to the bug tracking system]
Andrew Young <aty@sciences.sdsu.edu> writes:
> >> So the problem is still: how to get ttyS14 working so I can use the
> >> modem?
> >
> > No idea. It's a kernel issue, i would gather.
> >
> > You are using the ppp on ttyS14 to install base, right?
>
> No. I installed the base system from floppies. But I need the modem up
> to get the rest of the stuff off the Net. I'm trying to get ppp going,
> but pppd says "No such device" when I try to use the modem.
Oh. Is the original bug closable then?
If the device in /dev/ wasn't there but should have been, that's a bug
in the 'makedev' package, btw, that you might want to file.
If the kernel is not seeing a port that it should, that would be a bug
in kernel-image-2.2.19 or whatever you used.
> I *have* setserial installed, from the floppies. But when I try to use it
> to configure the ttyS14 port, I get "No such device" -- even though ls -l
> /dev/ttyS14 indicates the device is there. Any other ideas? Remember,
> the hardware itself works -- I've been using this modem on /dev/cua14 for
> 5 years with the old Slackware kernel.
Well, maybe the kernel is not detecting it (whereas the slackware one
did). Its possible slackware has a hacked kernel which looks for more
serial devices.
Maybe the device is coming up as some other device, rather than
/dev/ttyS14. I mean, you're just putting it at ttyS14 arbitrarily,
right? Why not ttyS4 or something?
Maybe you need one of the binary only drivers, e.g., as discussed on
http://www.toppoint.de/~chl/linux_on_512t.html ?
You've looked through all the kernel output it gives at bootup? That
should be visible with 'dmesg |less' or looking in /var/log/messages .
This really feels like more of a hardware/kernel issue than Debian
issue, really.
--
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onshore.com.....<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
Reply to: