Re: pcmcia modem woes

[David Reviejo <dreviejo@terra.es>]

* Hans <hansfong@zonnet.nl> [000901 23:45]:
> When I plug this in the following error appears on tty1: INIT: Id "S"
> respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
> 
> The "S" entry in /etc/inittab reads: S:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS0
> 

I think you don't want this (have you a console on serial port ttyS0?):
getty is trying to open a tty on ttyS0, but don't find any and it die;
Init then respawn it, and all over again...

Just comment this line, and do
    telinit q
to reload inittab.

See "man init" and "man inittab"; understanding this you can trace all
the booting process on your box. If you are curious about this, take a
look at the "Linux System Administrators' Guide" (Chapters 6-8); you can
find it at 
    http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/

HTH,
-- 
David