Re: pcmcia modem woes
At 02:57 PM 9/2/00 +0200, David Reviejo wrote:
>* 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.
I don't have a console on the serial port. The problem is that when the
modem is not plugged in inittab doesn't contain the "S" line; it gets
dynamically inserted when the modem is plugged in. I can uncommend the "S"
line, then telinit q and the problem goes away, but whenever I take out the
modem then plug it in again the "S" line is back in inittab. Strange, isn't
it?
Hans
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