Heimo Claasen wrote:
>
> I added the pertinent "setserial" line into one of
> the "init" scripts (and this did not help,

Does setserial help when you run it from the command-line?
If not, it is pointless to put in an init script.

> But: When I re-installed the system (i.e., the distro),
> there _was_ a section (in Mandrake 8.2) on network
> configuration where, for a dial-up connection, I could
> type in both the "device" (/dev/ttyS3) _and_ the IRQ.
> And that solved it for good.

Hooray for Linux-for-dummies.

> What I got on the former non-working arrangement
> is an "error 35".

Ah, finally we get some hard information.  I wish you
had said that earlier.

> I could not find anything relevant which _would_ give
> an error number "35" - the list in "setserial" stops
> with number 19.

I'm not an ioctl expert, but the standard UnixLib error 35
is "Operation would block"

Cheers,
Steven

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