On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 08:19:38PM -0500, Damir J. Naden wrote: > Hi Christopher S. Swingley; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > > > What did you change the irq to, and how? I tried to do this by > > excluding IRQ's in the PCMCIA config.opts file but each time it > > still failed, until finally there were no IRQ's left and the > > serial module wouldn't load. > > > > I _have_ to do the following (thinkpad380xd, xircom creditcard modem > 56k, potato home-compiled 2.2.13 w. 3.1.8 pcmcia): after computer is > running, edit the file /etc/pcmcia/serial.opts and put in the > SER_OPTS line irq 3; restart the pcmcia by restarting init.d/pcmcia > - this is where the modem is slow if I try to use it, so I do not- > go _back_ into the serial.opts file and _remove_ irq 3 to empty "" > (just as it was originally), restart the services and, voila, all > works fine. This happens when I don't link the ttyS2 (wher the card > is detected to the /dev/modem, as it does with the link on. The > other poster has suggested removing setserial; is there anything bad > that can result from it (i.e. what does setserial do on a laptop)? > This is getting to be pretty annoying procedure, now that even the > sound is working flawlessly... > I think I may be having the exact same problem, and it started happening when I upgraded to 3.1.8. However, I got it to work by using setserial /dev/modem irq 0 setserial /dev/modem irq 3 No pcmcia restarts required. The card keeps working through suspends, however if it is removed or the computer is restarted I have to issue the above commands again. I have told Dave Hinds about this problem and he said he's heard of incidents like this but can't figure out what's wrong. I'm using a Dell Latitude LM166ST, with a Megahertz XJ4556 33.6 modem. Are you getting strange messages from modprobe when you attempt to bring up a ppp connection? I always get some nonsense about not being able to find char-major-108, even though I have ppp support compiled into the kernel (not a module). Also, occasionally with this hack I get flaky connections, I can dial in but it hangs before getting an IP address. Is this situation similar to yours? MBG -- Matthew Guenther Nonsense. Space is blue and birds mguenther@netcom.ca fly through it. http://www.netcom.ca/~mguenthe/ -- Heisenberg
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