slink install messed up hamm partition

[John Bagdanoff <bagdanof@teleport.com>]

Hello

A couple of weeks ago I installed slink to hda5 from my hamm partition
(hdb1), and since then,  a message appears when  booting to hamm (thru
lilo)  that :

SETSERIAL command not found.

Now in 0setserial, I have changed /dev/ttyS2's irq to 3 (thats what my
modem is set to).  Now this change isn't recognized, so at the command
line I do a :

setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 3

Then I can use the modem.  When I come back to the computer after it's
been idle for a while, I have to do another setserial command to reset
the irq back to 3.  It's like the irq returns to it's default value when
I'm away from the computer.

Here's an excerpt from cat /proc/ioports before i do a setserial:

02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
0376-0376 : ide1
03c0-03df : vga+
03e8-03ef : serial(auto)

and after setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 3:

02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
0376-0376 : ide1
03c0-03df : vga+
03e8-03ef : serial(set)


Any clue you can give me so I can fix the problem?
Thanks in advance
John