Hi,
Thanks for yor response. You got me thinking on the right track, and the
problem may be solved. To force the serial_cs module to take IRQ 3, I put
"options serial_cs irq=3" into the /etc/conf.modules file.
Now, to solve the samba printing problem ...
Tom Berkley wrote:
> 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
