Now here is a trivial thing where the gurus at the Linux-newbie list were unable to get to term with:
For whatrever reason, the external modem on an installed Linux system was to move from a earlier connection on COM2 / ttyS1 / 2f8 and IRQ 3 to COM4 / ttyS3 /2e8 and using IRQ 7; COM3 and COM4 sit on a ISA card (where almost everything indeed can be jumper-set.) No problem to adapt the dial-out parameters in the DOS sitting on that same machine, everything works fine. Not so with that Linux install: there seems no way to make it accept the changed irq - and thus, no modem, no dial-up, no net connection... Using > setserial /dev/ttyS3 irq 7 would indeed set it right - _apparently_, as > setserial /dev/ttyS3 -G would duely report the setting. But to no avail, trying to start ppp0 just wouldn't work. There's no indication in any one of the existing ppp-related configuration files which hint to the IRQ setting (or would allow to change it). _ONLY_ work-around is starting X, then using Kppp (after having set parameters there in _its_ setup), then re-logging in to a console, where the modem connection then is indeed useable. (Answers like how powerful Linux is as long as I leave the modem on COM2 evidently wouldn't help much to make that modem working. And that was the bottom line of all answers I got, in a rather long thread. No-one who would be able to explay why the Kppp dialler indeed can quite well use the right parameters but the "system" cannot.) My last hope is now for some wise advice here, as there are some listers who still know from solid DOS experience how to get at hardware settings (and don't think that's something "users", in distinction to "system administrators", should never get the slightest insight of, not to speak of access.) // Heimo Claasen //<revobild at revobild dot net>// Brussels 2003-01-18 The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
