Hi Matthew Guenther; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 08:19:38PM -0500, Damir J. Naden wrote: > > I _have_ to do the following (thinkpad380xd, xircom creditcard modem > > 56k, potato home-compiled 2.2.13 w. 3.1.8 pcmcia): after computer is > > running, edit the file /etc/pcmcia/serial.opts and put in the > > SER_OPTS line irq 3; restart the pcmcia by restarting init.d/pcmcia > > - this is where the modem is slow if I try to use it, so I do not- > > go _back_ into the serial.opts file and _remove_ irq 3 to empty "" > > (just as it was originally), restart the services and, voila, all > > works fine. This happens when I don't link the ttyS2 (wher the card > > is detected to the /dev/modem, as it does with the link on. The > > other poster has suggested removing setserial; is there anything bad > > that can result from it (i.e. what does setserial do on a laptop)? > > This is getting to be pretty annoying procedure, now that even the > > sound is working flawlessly... > > > I think I may be having the exact same problem, and it started > happening when I upgraded to 3.1.8. However, I got it to work by > using > > setserial /dev/modem irq 0 > setserial /dev/modem irq 3 > > No pcmcia restarts required. The card keeps working through suspends, > however if it is removed or the computer is restarted I have to issue > the above commands again. I have told Dave Hinds about this problem > and he said he's heard of incidents like this but can't figure out > what's wrong. > > I'm using a Dell Latitude LM166ST, with a Megahertz XJ4556 33.6 modem. > Are you getting strange messages from modprobe when you attempt to > bring up a ppp connection? I always get some nonsense about not being > able to find char-major-108, even though I have ppp support compiled > into the kernel (not a module). Also, occasionally with this hack I > get flaky connections, I can dial in but it hangs before getting an IP > address. Is this situation similar to yours? > > MBG
Well, i have to say that I have solved my problem by purging setserial and letting kernel assign the serial ports and their interrupts. Now all of the modem functions are there without any further ado. I guess the setserial and pcmcia-cs have some problems communicating to each other what resources are available/taken. Hope this helps someone, damir
