Dell I7K laptop, same problem. I tried a lot of stuff with setserial
command but the only way to work around it was to
setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 6 <--- unused irq
setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 3 <--- the irq that S2 should use if you are
using the serial port
for something else.
I've added the following line to /etc/rc.d/rc.serial:
/bin/setserial /dev/ttyS1 auto_irq skip_test autoconfig
and chmod a+x /etc/rc.d/rc.serial
but it does not clear the problem, either. At least with the above
commands you can work around for now.
I would investigate more but after my ADSL line was installed, I lost
all interest.
Tom
John Craig wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I recently installed Makdrake 7 on my laptop, which had previously run
> RedHat 5.2-6.1. My pcmcia modem won't work, although it worked fine
> under RedHat. It is recognized, and the appropriate module loads
> (serial_cs), but when I try to dial out, it won't. In the kppp
> configuration utility, when you select "query modem" it responds "sorry,
> the modem is busy."
>
> Any ideas about what may be causing this? /dev/modem is a link to
> /dev/ttyS2, which is where it connected to in RedHat 6.1, which has
> global read/write permissions. I also tried directly connecting to the
> /dev/ttyS2 as well as S0,1,3 and cua0-3, and nothing works. Where
> should I look for more information?
>
> Second problem -- Printing to a local printer works, but not to a Win9x
> printer through Samba. There is likely a problem with the smb.conf file,
> but I'm not sure what it is. I basically copied the configuration from
> the previous RedHat 6.1 smb.conf (which used to work), but I noticed
> that the Mandrake7 samba is 2.0.6 compared to 2.0.5 in RedHat, although
> comparing the two, I don't see any difference in the default smb.conf
> file format. The /etc/printcap file was generated by the printtool
> program, where I configured the local and Win9x (samba) printers.
>
> Any idea about what could be wrong?
>
> Ah that reminds me, I can't get swat to work. :(
>
> Other than that, Mandrake 7 is great!
>
> Thanks, John Craig
