For some reason which have nothing to do with the following, I had to change the connection of the (external) modem from its original placement on the motherboard's COM2 / 2f8 (with IRQ 3) to an UART on an ISA card at COM4 / 2e8 and IRQ 7.
I could not find any means, with "linuxconf" for instance, to have the system accept the new setting. Only - restrictedly efficient - measure is doing "setserial /dev/ttyS3 port 0x02e8 irq 7". This allows at least to use "kppp" (which accepts the new "device" setting to /dev/ttyS3 in its setup) then - but this one works only from/in X (Mandrake installs), and is not available at all in the Debian install (I use exchangeable HDs for running the one or other system). There's no means to have the modem activated/available in console mode - if I don't go into X, start kppp from there, then log in with a root console again: definitely not very elegant; and impossible on the Debian install as there is no kppp there. Running "setserial" doesn't seem to insert the relevant information either into the system's tables: neither /proc/IOports nor /proc/irqs show any sign of the modem. <besides> Rather obscure, logically, that with the re-login to a console from X it's possible to use the modem _IF IT HAS BEEN ACTIVATED_ by kppp in X before - in the Mdk install, even "ifup ppp0" _does_ work _then_, even if kppp has just been called and used only to query the modem, and has been closed again without having actually done a connection.</besides> So how do I get the dang system to accept the new settings of the modem ?! NOTE: with booting, the BIOS sure "sees" it at the right address, and so does the Linux boot sequence; only that this one stubbornly insists on assigning it IRQ 3 - which is the reason for the whole nuisance. Gransking all those HOWTOs and mans didn't give any better hint than precisely that to use "setserial"; but _no_ answer on the question how the initial setting of a system installed, defined at the time with the system installation, is to be changed. // Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2002-12-22 The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
