On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 11:34:24AM +0000, Alexander Clouter wrote: > 2. Harddisk - I've been following the harddisk won't spin down thread > and still my harddisk....won't spin down :( Every 4 or 5 seconds it > does something to my harddisk :( Occassionly the harddisk does spin > down but this is very rarely. Try mobile-update package, also noflushd package.
> 4. Serial ports - My internal serial port is happy (ttyS0), however the > IR port being emulated as a serial port (ttyS1) causes 'Input/Output > error'. This is not so much a problem but it also happens with the > PCMCIA modems I plug in (ttyS3). They do install and all the right > modules load up and it even report it has been set to ttyS2 but it even > when I 'cat /dev/ttyS2' all I get is the same input/output error. The > first modem I tried was a Megahertz V.34 Modem and then I tried a GSM > card with a real serial Modem built in to it. I could understand the > GSM one not working however the Megahertz modem is actually suppoted. > One thing that is strange is that the pcmcia cardmgr reports the modem > set up on tty02 but /var/state/pcmcia/stab reports everything happy on > ttyS02. Guess the first report is some typo in the module code then :) > This is really bugging me also as to get internet access through our > internal phone system I have to set up my friends win95 machine with a > winmodem as a gateway and pass my laptop through it via the ethernet > cards. Nasty. With pcmcia 3.1.8 I had to remove setserial inorder for my pcmcia modem to get working again, last was 3.1.1. chanop -- ,-----------------------------------------------------------------------------. | Chanop Silpa-Anan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Australian National University | | Tel. +61 2 6279 8826, +61 2 6279 8837 (office hour) | | +61 2 6249 5240 (home +voice mail) | | Debian GNU Linux ICQ uin 11366301 | `-----------------------------------------------------------------------------'
