Re: Is this a bug of potato (2..2.15-2000-06-07)
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 07:00:11AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 07:25:53PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I installed the basic debian potato system on my laptop by
> > disks-i386/2.2.15-2000-06-07, my pcmcia ethernet card is
> > working fine, but the pcmcia modem card can't ppp dial-out
> > (no dial tone, but can bring up the /dev/modem device),
> > than I downgrade to installed the slink 2.1R5, everything is
> > alright, I can dialout to my ISP now (exactly same configuration
> > and process as install the potato).
> > Is this a bug of potato-2.2.15-2000-06-07 or only my
> > system's problem?
>
> Yes it is a kernel bug. See the the debian-laptop list archives
> from the past week or so and read more about it. The problem
> occurs when the potato pcmcia-3.1.8 package is installed. According
> to David Hinds, changes were made in that release to the serial
> module that discovered a bug in the kernel code. 3.1.9 and later
> have implemented a work-around. In the mean time, this sequence
> of commands may work:
>
> Log in as root and issue:
>
> cardctl eject
> rmmod serial
> modprobe serial
> carctl insert
>
> After doing that my pcmcia modem worked flawlessly. Earlier this
> week I installed kernel 2.2.15 (potato source) and pcmcia 3.1.14
> (compiled from the woody distro source).
I've experienced quite a few problems with setserial interacting badly
with pcmcia modems. You could also try removing the setserial package, and
rebooting (have to reboot to get rid of setserial's changes). This makes
all my laptops work flawlessly.
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