On Friday 18 May 2007 04:08, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 04:18:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
My ADSL connection had a short outage yesterday. I discovered, to my
consternation, that my machine's internal modem wasn't being picked up.
This is a 1999 Dell PIII that refuses to die. The PCI modem has worked
in the past under Redhat and Gentoo. I am aware that I have to allocate
more than 4 serial ports in make menuconfig. lspci -v shows...
00:10.0 Serial controller: 3Com Corp, Modem Division 56K FaxModem Model
5610 (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550]) Subsystem: 3Com Corp, Modem Division
Unknown device baba Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
I/O ports at 1430 [size=8]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
A rather heavy-handed solution was to emerge setserial and execute
setserial /dev/ttyS4 port 0x1430 irq 9
This initializes the port, and pppconfig now finds /dev/ttyS4 when
doing an auto-probe. And dialup works. This is nice to know, because
I'll be moving later this summer, and may be dialup-only for a few weeks
depending on circumstances.
I've copied the above setserial command to /etc/conf.d/local.start to
ensure it's automatically executed at bootup.
I have to run setserial manually to get my IrDA recognised. Not sure if this
is a change in later kernels and/or udev. I would have thought that it would
be picked up by the kernel/udev without much drama, but it seems that
setserial is needed hereafter?
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Regards,
Mick
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