Ah, we inch nearer to the problem: > pppd works through /dev/ttySx > > > I had the impression that it was the kernel's job to talk > > to the port hardware > > Yes the kernel manages the link between /dev/ttySx and the > port hardware. There is a serial driver in the kernel to > do this.
So good working of pppd does depend on the correct kernel serial driver's setting of the IRQ for that ttySx. Problem is, that (a.) setserial on that "problem machine" (Mandrake install, again) does not change what the kernel's serial driver "sees", while Kppp in fact does; (b.) how to change what the kernel sees as default IRQ, without a (not sufficiently well working and) with each booting to-be-repeated setserial-plus-arg command; and, I ask, short of recompiling the kernel "by hand". // Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2003-01-03 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
