HELP: can't access serial port???

[Bruno Boettcher <bboett@erm1.u-strasbg.fr>]

hello,

i am still trying to get my Xircom CEM-28 pcmica-card modem to work, without
success at the moment, and the problem is really strange:

cat /var/run/stab
Socket 0: Xircom CEM28 Ethernet/Modem
0       network xirc2ps_cs      0       eth0
0       serial  serial_cs       0       ttyS3   4       67

so the pcmcia controller recognized the card and the serial part of it...
lsmod gives (taking only pcmcia modules)
serial_cs               3836   0  (unused)
xirc2ps_cs             11288   1 
ds                      6144   4  [serial_cs xirc2ps_cs]
i82365                 22456   2 
pcmcia_core            41808   0  [serial_cs xirc2ps_cs ds i82365]

what bothers me is the unused flage behind the serial_cs module...
nevertheless:
setserial /dev/ttyS3
/dev/ttyS3, UART: 16450, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 7
which seems correct, if i take the card out it reverts to 
setserial /dev/ttyS3
/dev/ttyS3, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 7

now i wanted to get connection to the modem:

kermit 
C-Kermit 7.0.195 Beta.04, 30 Jan 1999, for Linux
 Copyright (C) 1985, 1999,
   Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
Default file-transfer mode is AUTOMATIC
Type ? or HELP for help.
(/etc/pcmcia/) C-Kermit>set line /dev/ttyS0
(/etc/pcmcia/) C-Kermit>set line /dev/ttyS1
(/etc/pcmcia/) C-Kermit>set line /dev/ttyS2
/dev/ttyS2 is not a terminal device
Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/ttyS2
(/etc/pcmcia/) C-Kermit>set line /dev/ttyS3
/dev/ttyS3 is not a terminal device
Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/ttyS3

that there's nothing behind ttyS2 is normal, but ttyS3 should now work??? how
can it come that setserial see's the port but not kermit??
BTW is there a way to tell the pcmcia-card to use a specific ttyS* ? e.g.
setting it on ttyS2 instead of ttyS3?

but more important, how do i get that f*****g modem to work????

one more precision laptop is running debian-slink kernel 2.2.7 and
pcmcia-cs-3.0.8

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