Re: PCI modems (success!)
Hi Leonardo,
It only took about a week to figure out that your message below did in fact
tell me exactly what I needed to know in order to get my pci modem working
correctly. I was thrown by the memory address that /proc/pci showed. But
once I realized I needed to put that in the /dev/serial.conf file rather
than ttyS* I was fine. For some stupid reason on my part I didn't put in the
correct IRQ, according to /proc/pci. So I connected but very slowly. Modem
HOWTO, a great document, suggested this was due to an incorrect IRQ. When I
then changed serial.conf to include the IRQ that /proc/pci showed my
connection speeded up significantly.
Thanks to you, all the other debian list users who messaged me, and the
Serial and Modem HOWTOs for helping me solve this problem.
Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leonardo Dias" <madleo@catho.com.br>
To: "Ken Januski" <kenjanuski@mindspring.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: PCI modems
> > So now that I have this info should I start experimenting with IRQs with
> > setserial? I'm also curious as to whether I can believe what dmsg tells
me.
> > If it finds modem at ttyS00 does that mean it's really there or could
this
> > be a default setting from some configuration file? Thanks for any
pointers
> > you can give and thanks for your incredibly speedy response.
>
> It's really easy.
>
> Do a
>
> cat /proc/pci
>
> You'll find a communication device in some IRQ. Get that IRQ number and
> open your
>
> /etc/serial.conf
>
> Change the IRQ in there, then run
>
> /etc/init.d/setserial start
>
> or something like that. That's all you need. :-))
>
> --
> Leonardo Dias
> Analista Programador / Analyst Programmer
> Catho Online
> www.catho.com.br
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