On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 02:25:20 -0700, Miark wrote:
>But when I try to connect to the Internet in KDE, I'm told
>that the modem "won't respond" to either /dev/ttyS0 or to
>/dev/modem (which would be the same, thanks to modemtool).
>If I try ttyS1 or anything else, I'm told that the device is
>"busy", so it knows something is different about ttyS0.
>
>I've been reading and working through this problem for
>almost 4 hours, and I've about given up. What do I do from
>here?
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Sun, 14 Jan 2001 08:01:16
Hello Miark...when I struggled with this problem it turned out to be
an IRQ conflict between the modem and a USB controller...I did not
find this easy because I had deactivated the USB in bios and thought
it dead...
However it still sucked the life from the modem and gave me
the "modem is busy" not very helpful error.
Run this tric procinfo and see what is listed on the
irq?
Run this tric cat /proc/pci that may give you some
info also?
Run this tric setserial -g /dev/ttyS* it gives all the
tty and irq info
Look for stuff on the same irq as the modem is using like
especially a mouse and try moving the irq of the modem around?
Four hours?? no big deal....I fought it for many weeks 8-)
Luck to you
Olly P
Biloxi
