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Re: XFree4 on Pismo - kernel 2.4



On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 03:29:02PM +0200, Philipp von Weitershausen wrote:
> Then I just made one more modification to my 2.4 kernel because wvdial 
> woudn't find the internal modem. I figured that I hadn't compiled serial 
> support, so I added it, recompiled, rebooted - still no modem.
> It works fine under 2.2.18pre21 - the one that comes with potato. So I'm 
> still using 2.2.18pre21 'cause I need internet :-)

 You might not have noticed that there are two places where you can turn on
serial port support.  The Standard/generic under Char devs is _not_ the one
you want, at least not on my mac-clone desktop.  The one you want for the
Z8530 UART Macs have is "support for PowerMac serial ports" under "Macintosh
device drivers".

 I don't know if this is the trick for the internal modem on a Pismo, or
what, but if you haven't compiled linux for a Mac very often, you might have
missed that.

 (BTW, you can check if this is likely to work by looking in
/proc/interrupts:  Look for SCC IRQs.  That's the kind of chip the macserial
driver supports (the z8530 is actually an ESCC).)

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