On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:47:44PM -0600, Robert Rati wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 13:22, Pigeon wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 04:00:57PM -0600, Robert Rati wrote: > > > I just installed the Debian 2.6.3 kernel for i686 machines and my ISA > > > PNP card. I have an old ISA Plug and Play modem that I had working in > > > kernel 2.4, but can't get 2.6 to recognize. With the 2.4 kernel, I was > > > able to disable PNP OS in my Award BIOS, and the 2.4 Linux kernel found > > > the card as just another serial port. The 2.6 kernel doesn't appear to > > > do this. I tried enabling PNP OS in my BIOS, but that didn't appear to > > > help anything. The pnp.txt file with the kernel source wasn't much > > > help. Do I have to install the isapnptools package and configure that > > > like I used to have to? Any help would be appreciated. > > > > ISA plug and play is an "experimental" option in 2.6. I don't know if > > the Debian kernels set it. Check the kernel config file; is > > CONFIG_ISAPNP set? If not, you'll have to build your own kernel. > > > > Or, are your ordinary serial ports recognised? If not, try "modprobe > > serial_core". > > My serial ports are recognized correctly, it's just the modem that's > not. Is there a way to check the configuration of the kernel that is > running (ie something in /proc), I don't do my kernels the Debian Way, but AIUI there should be a config file in /boot, called config-2.6.3 or something similar. > or are you saying install the kernel source and apply the debian patches? ...or the Debian source package, with patches already applied... you'll only need to do this if CONFIG_ISAPNP is not set, so you can build your own kernel that does have it set. > If the debian kernels do not have > isapnp compiled as an option will the isapnp tools still work? I assume > they would. I've never needed to use them, so I don't know if they require kernel support or not. You could always apt-get install isapnptools and see what luck you get. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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