This last was known a long time ago, as noted in the BUGS file in David Hinds's pcmcia-cs package. It was finally fixed in 2.2.11, after several rounds of pestering.
Nathan Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Charlie" wrote: > I have the same problem, and it is NOT ppp/network configuration related. > When I try to open the serial port it returns input/output error. If I > setserial the IRQ to 0 it will work, but very slowly, as serial ports are > not meant to be polled. > > I haven't looked at the problem that in depth, but the card used to work > fine untill shortly before kernel 2.2.0. If anybody finds a solution > please let me know, because I have been using windows to use my modem > (which is very rare fortunatly, I have ethernet at home, school, and most > of my work places). > > On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > > Christophe CALMEJANE wrote: > > > I have a problem with my xircom card under debian linux : > > > I've a compaq ARMADA 1700 with a debian 2.1 and a 2.2.9 kernel... and > > > of course a Xircom pcmcia card (RealPort Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56K) > > > and.... under linux my network is fine, but not the modem... > > > under windows95, ethernet and modem share the same irq (3 on my > > > computer), and linux seems trying to work the same way, but.... > > > pon command answer Input/Output error, and if I force another irq for > > > the modem (setserial), the modem seems to work, seems to connect to > > > my provider, but, nope, no working connection (because of the > > > receiving irq I think) ;( > > > > I've got the same card, a realport combo card. It works fine for me > > using the same IRQ, even at the same time (dialing up the French minitel > > service while the ethernet is running). > > > > You said that you thought the modem was dialling in properly. Do you > > mean you could hear all the beeps and noises as the connection was > > made? If so then your modem is working fine. Does plog indicate that > > the connection was established? > > > > I suspect your problem is with the routing. If your set-up is like > > mine, your default gateway will go via ethernet, through eth0. Have a > > look at route -n. What is written there? I expect you'll have an entry > > for ppp (which indicates the modem is working), one or two for eth0 (the > > ethernet), and the default loop on localhost. The problem is that the > > default gateway will have been assigned to eth0, and via ppp you only > > have the one direct link to the computer on the other side of the > > phoneline, with no gateway. Read the Network and PPP How-To's. What > > you need to do is turn off eth0 before you run pon, this allows the > > default gateway to be given to ppp. > > > > I put it into a small script to save all the typing each time: > > sudo ifconfig eth0 down > > sudo pon <ppp script>
