Woo.. hold up. PCMCIA cards don't use the bios serial setting.
I'm not sure at all why that would do anything except maybe that when you
had serial enabled in the bios, it assigned the serial connector on the
back of the computer to cua0 regardless of anything plugged in. Then when
you plugged the modem card in, it assigned it to cua1, but when it was on
auto and nothing was in the plug, it assigned modem to cua0. I'm willing
to bet that if you set it to serial disabled, it will work fine. That
will exclude you from using that serial connector on the back of the
computer though. It's also possible that win98 will just use your serial
port anyway. That should be fine. Now that I think about it though, it
might not make any difference. Try it though. Come to think of it even
more it really makes no sense unless your card services is old and doesn't
realize your card is a modem. Maybe if it's a combo card? Card services
should make a link from /dev/cua[modem] to /dev/modem. Mine is linked to
/dev/cua1 because I have my serial port enabled and a mouse plugged in.
There's maybe a workaround there if that's the problem. Try soft linking
/dev/cua1 /dev/modem, see if that works, then try /dev/cua0 /dev/modem and
see if that works. If that's the case, go download the newest
cardservices and compile the beast. That should clear it up.
It sure would be a hell of a lot easier just have responses to
these questions because I'm going off on every tangent I can think of.
Anyway, if none of that works, let us know what serial port it's on, if
it's a warm boot only thing of if after installing things in windows it
takes over from cold boot. When does it work? If it does work in Linux
at all go type cardctl config and check the irq it's running on. Then go
to when it doesn't work and check the irq. If they are different it's a
warm boot only condition and you'll just have to rid your computer of
win98 alltogether. I imagine that with a laptop there's not much turning
off that goes on anyway(at least for me, of course all I'm running is
linux), but still it seems like you probably just warm boot a lot right?
Okay, I'm done
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Lee Ko wrote:
> I installed TurboLinux on my I7k with a 3Com PCMCIA modem some time
> ago.
> At first, Linux could not see the modem. Then I changed the bios serial
> port
> setting from "enabled" to "auto", then the modem worked fine on both
> Linux
> and Win98. Later, I tried out connecting the system, under Win98, to
> several
> external stuffs, monitor, mouse and printer. Afterward, Linux could not
> see
> the modem again. Anyone knowledgeable enough to know what might have
> happened
> and how to fix it?
>
> Lee Ko
>
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