On Friday 18 May 2007 04:08, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 04:18:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > > My ADSL connection had a short outage yesterday. I discovered, to my > > consternation, that my machine's internal modem wasn't being picked up. > > This is a 1999 Dell PIII that refuses to die. The PCI modem has worked > > in the past under Redhat and Gentoo. I am aware that I have to allocate > > more than 4 serial ports in make menuconfig. "lspci -v" shows... > > > > 00:10.0 Serial controller: 3Com Corp, Modem Division 56K FaxModem Model > > 5610 (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550]) Subsystem: 3Com Corp, Modem Division > > Unknown device baba Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9 > > I/O ports at 1430 [size=8] > > Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 > > A rather heavy-handed solution was to emerge "setserial" and execute > > setserial /dev/ttyS4 port 0x1430 irq 9 > > This initializes the port, and pppconfig now finds /dev/ttyS4 when > doing an auto-probe. And dialup works. This is nice to know, because > I'll be moving later this summer, and may be dialup-only for a few weeks > depending on circumstances. > > I've copied the above setserial command to /etc/conf.d/local.start to > ensure it's automatically executed at bootup.
I have to run setserial manually to get my IrDA recognised. Not sure if this is a change in later kernels and/or udev. I would have thought that it would be picked up by the kernel/udev without much drama, but it seems that setserial is needed hereafter? -- Regards, Mick
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