Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp
Hi Matthew Guenther; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 08:19:38PM -0500, Damir J. Naden wrote:
> > 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
Well, i have to say that I have solved my problem by purging setserial
and letting kernel assign the serial ports and their interrupts. Now all
of the modem functions are there without any further ado. I guess the
setserial and pcmcia-cs have some problems communicating to each other
what resources are available/taken.
Hope this helps someone,
damir
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