Well, no one else has responded to this yet, so I'm going to charge ahead
blindly and try to answer it.
First, did you happen to change any thing when you installed Mandrake? I'm
thinking something like adding IR support or some other BIOS tweak. Next, it's
not neccessarily a problem that Mandrake identified the PCMCIA modem on a
different port. Most likely, the Caldera distribution's scripts were setup to
exclude the ports Mandrake detected on or specifically defined 0x3e8 (the
normal ttyS02) as the port to setup on. If you want to, you could go into the
file /etc/pcmcia/config.opts and either exclude/include the specific io ranges
or add an option line specifically for your card. I believe the line would be
like:
module "3c589_cs" opts "port 0x03e8"
I'm not totally sure this is right, but it seems so. Someone who actually
messes with this stuff should chime in here.
Finally, do you really need to point your dailer (Kppp, minicom, whatever) at
ttyS02? When you insert the card, the pcmcia scripts should automatically
create a link to /dev/modem from whatever port the card was set up on. This can
cause a problem if the card is not inserted as the the modem link doesn't
exist, but for normal dailup it shouldn't matter.
If I'm just a blithering idiot here, somebody correct me, but these seem to be
my observations.
Adrian
--
- I just tried this on my old Packard Bell 486/66 w/4MB (Hey ...
- shut-up! I was young, ignorant, and didn't know anything about
- hardware or quality manufacturers.).
