modem trouble and "Configuring serial ports failed"
I have installed Debian 2.0 (hamm) on my computer
in addition to Windows95. The problem is that altho the
modem works fine on the Windows side, it doesn't work at all
(or I haven't configured it properly) on Debian/Linux. Having
monitored this newsgroup for some weeks now, I am aware that
winmodems don't work w/ Linux. The modem is a Logicode 33H-P-CL,
which I am told is not a winmodem, so that shouldn't be the
cause of the problem. At boot time, a message does flash
by saying "Configuring serial ports failed". It doesn't
however show up as part of the "dmesg" output (which I include below).
Windows says that the modem is on COM2 (which of course corresponds
to /dev/ttyS1). However when I run "setserial -g /dev/ttyS?"
I get the following output:
/dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
/dev/ttyS1, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
/dev/ttyS2, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4
/dev/ttyS3, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3
This doesn't look good since COM2 (ttyS1) shows an unknown UART.
I tried using setserial to explicitly set things up, but to no avail.
I'd appreciate any advice on how to proceed. Due to the
boot message about "Configuring serial ports failed", I explicitly
load the ppp package manually, but again to no avail.
I include below the "dmesg" output in the event it has info of
relevance beyond my comprehension. Thanks for any advice!
--
Jonathan Rich
rich@earth.nwu.edu
******************* "dmesg" output ***************************
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fad60
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfb1e0
pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb210
Probing PCI hardware.
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 400.59 BogoMIPS
Memory: 14104k/16384k available (1124k kernel code, 384k reserved, 772k
data)
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized
Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Linux version 2.0.34 (root@greathan) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #2 Thu Jul 9
10:57:48 EST 1998
Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
tpqic02: Runtime config, $Revision: 0.4.1.5 $, $Date: 1994/10/29 02:46:13 $
tpqic02: DMA buffers: 20 blocks, at address 0x277800 (0x2777d8)
Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size
loop: registered device at major 7
ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f
hda: FUJITSU M1623TAU, 1623MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=824/64/63, DMA
hdb: MATSHITA CR-581, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdc: Maxtor 90432D2, 4121MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=8374/16/63, UDMA
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
ppa: Version 1.42
ppa: Probing port 03bc
ppa: Probing port 0378
ppa: SPP port present
ppa: PS/2 bidirectional port present
ppa: EPP 1.9 with hardware direction protocol
ppa: Probing port 0278
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
hda: hda1
hdc: hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 hdc4
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Adding Swap: 65516k swap-space (priority -1)
Module inserted $Id: cdrom.c,v 0.8 1996/08/10 10:52:11 david Exp $
lp1 at 0x0378, (polling)
Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
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