Re: running debian on a laptop
* Derek Broughton <dbroughton@netcom.ca>, 2002-11-04 08:00 -0500:
> From: "Andre Berger" <uzscd5@uni-bonn.de>
>
> > * Derek Broughton <dbroughton@netcom.ca>, 2002-11-04 07:27 -0500:
> > > From: "samuel desseaux" <sdesseaux@free.fr>
> > [...]
> > > It's not entirely true either. Some Dell's have non-linmodems, but my i2500
> has
> > > the Lucent on-board modem which works perfectly.
> >
> > are you running kernel 2.4.x, and if so, with with BIOS version?
> > Kernel 2.2.19 works fine with my girl-friends i2500 but 2.4.x never
> > gets a dial tone from the linmodem.
> >
>
> hmmm. I'm running 2.4.19. I know it worked fine with 2.4.9, and 2.4.16 - .18,
> but I actually don't have a use for it anymore (I live in an off-grid cottage
> where I have to use a serial port cell-modem) so I can't guarantee it's working
> on 2.4.19. I loaded the ltmodem sources and then use the debian build scripts
> to build the ltmodem*.deb for each kernel upgrade.
>
> derek
She's using 2.4.18-686 from woody. It works neither with
self-compiled sources nor with pre-built .debs. From what I've read
this might be related to a BIOS issue: Her version A07 might not be
compatible with auto-assigning IRQs as required by ltmodem?
But it's good know that at least it works at all.
-Andre
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