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Re: Minor problems under potato



On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 11:34:24AM +0000, Alexander Clouter wrote:
> 2.  Harddisk - I've been following the harddisk won't spin down thread
> and still my harddisk....won't spin down :(  Every 4 or 5 seconds it
> does something to my harddisk :(  Occassionly the harddisk does spin
> down but this is very rarely.
Try mobile-update package, also noflushd package.

> 4.  Serial ports - My internal serial port is happy (ttyS0), however the
> IR port being emulated as a serial port (ttyS1) causes 'Input/Output
> error'.  This is not so much a problem but it also happens with the
> PCMCIA modems I plug in (ttyS3).  They do install and all the right
> modules load up and it even report it has been set to ttyS2 but it even
> when I 'cat /dev/ttyS2' all I get is the same input/output error.  The
> first modem I tried was a Megahertz V.34 Modem and then I tried a GSM
> card with a real serial Modem built in to it.  I could understand the
> GSM one not working however the Megahertz modem is actually suppoted. 
> One thing that is strange is that the pcmcia cardmgr reports the modem
> set up on tty02 but /var/state/pcmcia/stab reports everything happy on
> ttyS02.  Guess the first report is some typo in the module code then :) 
> This is really bugging me also as to get internet access through our
> internal phone system I have to set up my friends win95 machine with a
> winmodem as a gateway and pass my laptop through it via the ethernet
> cards.  Nasty.
With pcmcia 3.1.8 I had to remove setserial inorder for my pcmcia modem to get
working again, last was 3.1.1.

chanop


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