Re: Serial port weirdness
Bentley Taylor wrote: during boot, do you get the 2 high beeps, meaning that the box recognizes the pcmcia card presence? or, do you get a high beep and then a low one? or no beeps? I don't use any pcmcia cards currently; before my pcmcia network card broke, I used it from time to time, but I usually didn't boot with it - rather, I put it in when I needed to transfer some files or something. The modem is an external one (an old 33.6, one of usr robotic sportster models), connected through one of various ports on the back. It's the same modem I use for my old non-notebook p100. I should've been more clear on this. snip if you get the boot beeps, you may just need to use setserial for the right config. Oh. I'm sooo clueless on how to do that. I'll go sift through the man pages one more time; maybe I can find some info-documents or something like that. is it possible to post dmesg? I guess I've really been away from Debian too long (or I never got it in the first place) - what's that? I'm thankful; Sunna
Re: Serial port weirdness
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:13:13AM +, Sunnanvind Briling Fenderson wrote: Bentley Taylor wrote: during boot, do you get the 2 high beeps, meaning that the box recognizes the pcmcia card presence? or, do you get a high beep and then a low one? or no beeps? I don't use any pcmcia cards currently; before my pcmcia network card broke, I used it from time to time, but I usually didn't boot with it - rather, I put it in when I needed to transfer some files or something. The modem is an external one (an old 33.6, one of usr robotic sportster models), connected through one of various ports on the back. It's the same modem I use for my old non-notebook p100. I should've been more clear on this. snip if you get the boot beeps, you may just need to use setserial for the right config. Oh. I'm sooo clueless on how to do that. I'll go sift through the man pages one more time; maybe I can find some info-documents or something like that. is it possible to post dmesg? I guess I've really been away from Debian too long (or I never got it in the first place) - what's that? // hi, ...sorry, i've no experience with external modems... re dmesg: it's the command to see the lines on the screen when the computer boots. as far as capturing all those lines, i just use the script command: script dmesg_1 (btw, dmsgs_1 just represents a new file name that script would be piping the contents into, or something to that effect...) then just type the command, in this case, dmesg (no quotes). to end script, just type, quit (no quotes). so with the file dmesg_1 (or whatever you would choose to name it, you could then attach that file in your email, thus posting the contents of dmesg)... good luck with the modem; perhaps someone else knows about external modems. hth, bentley taylor. //
Serial port weirdness
Hi; I just installed Debian on my x86-notebook again (I ran it a lot last year, but never really mastered it), and I tried to run pppconfig to connect, via modem, to my ISP. Alas - it couldn't find my modem. At all. It used to be able to do so. I tried wvdial (just in case); but it didn't find it - it seemed like it couldn't even find that serial port. It asks if I have configured it properly with setserial, or something to that extent (I'm at work now; I'll see if I can dig up the exact error message, if requested). I guess not. It worked fine until a friend helped me get my pcmcia-network card running, last fall - when I returned home from our lan-gathering I couldn't dial up. I've since reformatted my ext2-partition (for various reasons) and reinstalled Debian; but the same problem persists - the serial port that the modem is connected to doesn't seem to work. I'm sure I might have neglected something in the installation process, but what? I currently dual boot Windows and dialing works fine from it. I'd like to get back into running Debian full time as soon as possible. Thanks for reading this letter; Sunna
Re: Serial port weirdness
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 08:50:20AM +, Sunnanvind Briling Fenderson wrote: Hi; I just installed Debian on my x86-notebook again (I ran it a lot last year, but never really mastered it), and I tried to run pppconfig to connect, via modem, to my ISP. Alas - it couldn't find my modem. At all. It used to be able to do so. I tried wvdial (just in case); but it didn't find it - it seemed like it couldn't even find that serial port. It asks if I have configured it properly with setserial, or something to that extent (I'm at work now; I'll see if I can dig up the exact error message, if requested). I guess not. It worked fine until a friend helped me get my pcmcia-network card running, last fall - when I returned home from our lan-gathering I couldn't dial up. I've since reformatted my ext2-partition (for various reasons) and reinstalled Debian; but the same problem persists - the serial port that the modem is connected to doesn't seem to work. I'm sure I might have neglected something in the installation process, but what? I currently dual boot Windows and dialing works fine from it. I'd like to get back into running Debian full time as soon as possible. Thanks for reading this letter; Sunna // hi, during boot, do you get the 2 high beeps, meaning that the box recognizes the pcmcia card presence? or, do you get a high beep and then a low one? or no beeps? if there are no beeps, you may want to reinstall to ensure that pcmcia support is included in the kernel; although, i'm sure there's another way to do it without a reinstall. (or it should be feasible by rolling a custom kernel.) if you get the boot beeps, you may just need to use setserial for the right config. is it possible to post dmesg? hth, bentley taylor. (i'm not an expert...just trying to give back to the community that has so greatly enriched my dlinux experience.) //
