Re: modem trouble and "Configuring serial ports failed"
Perhaps it is a Plug & Play modem?
>
> 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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