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Re: Diald & modem forget irq #



I believe the isapnptools package is intended to deal with situations like
this.  See the manpage for pnpdump after installing.  

Mike Taylor

On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Will Lowe wrote:

> I have a Hayes Accura 33.6 faxmodem;  it's pnp,  I have a pnp bios,
> everything is configured successfully by the bios.
> 
> 	The modem,  which for some reason is placed by the bios on
> /dev/cua3 (com 4),  is auto-pnp-configured to use irq 10.  Since the Linux
> default for this device file seems to be irq 3,  I use setserial in
> /etc/rc.boot to change the irq line for it to 10.
> 	I have diald installed to auto-connect this modem ... generally it
> works fine.  But sometimes I get messages saying "failed to determine
> terminal attributes" in /var/log/messages ... it _always_ turns out that
> somehow the irq for /dev/cua3 has reverted to 3.  I am able (as root) to
> setserial it back to 10,  but it's aggravating,  because the point of
> installing diald was to <not> have to do that all the time ...
> 
> 	Is there a way for me to hardwire this irq number to this port
> somehow?  Is there a better way to handle it?
> 
> 						Thanks.
>                      					Will
> 
> 			        harpo@udel.edu
>                		      lowe@eecis.udel.edu
> 			http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~lowe/
> 
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