Clifford Kite wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Malte Thoma wrote:
>
> |Clifford Kite wrote:
> |>
> |> tcgetattr almost always means that there is another process besides
> |> pppd that is contending for the modem IRQ. Some examples are (1) an
> |> ethernet card that used the same IRQ as the modem, (2) a misconfigured
> |> ppp script that launched pppd twice, and (3) a mingetty that somehow
> |> had been configured for call-in.
> |>
> |
> |But I have nothing changed exept the kernel image:
> |(1) No extra pcmcia card (on my Laptop)
> |(2) The same ppp script as for the 2.0.36 kernel
> |(3) mindgetty is not installed
>
> Look for something using the IRQ configured for the /dev/ttySx or /dev/cua0
> that your modem uses. One way is "cat /proc/interrupts" which will show
> the active IRQs. It's conceivable that a new kernel might configure a
> device with a different IRQ than the old kernel did.
cat /proc/interrupts gives
CPU0
0: 2557985 XT-PIC timer
1: 103221 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 164815 XT-PIC pcnet_cs
5: 28 XT-PIC soundblaster
8: 2 XT-PIC rtc
10: 5 XT-PIC i82365
12: 281917 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 3345730 XT-PIC ide0
NMI: 0
/dev/modem is linked to /dev/ttyS0
what now?
A helpless adept .....
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