On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 20:14:17 Nicola Bernardelli wrote:
> Ciao Francesco,
>
> Thanks a lot for replying. After you told me that the driver _does_ work for
the
> ISA pnp version of the modem, I concentrated on looking for what process
could be
> using the resource and tried hiding the ttyS3 device and even avoiding isapnp
do
> the setup. Well... finally I got it, I just had to uncomment one further line
in my
> isapnp.conf file,
>
> (IO 1 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x0100))
>
> that's all. Afterwards I've been making some tests.
> Sometimes the driver shows a lot of hex flags and complains "Aieee" trying to
kill
> don't remember what (will try to reproduce it if anybody wants a true report)
and
> it just freezes the whole system with need to power down (this laptop doesn't
have
> an hardware reset), it seems as removing the module - eventually sleeping 1
sec -
> and reinstalling the module is a good thing before trying a new connection...
but I
> haven't been able to isolate a serie of actions that causes the problem yet.
> Anyway, I could connect to one of the ISPs I have access to here in Paris
(and
> could at last pop my e-mail accounts with a single popclient call as I used
to on
> my Linux desktop in Italy, before getting stucked to win stuff on this
laptop,
>which means tweakling with the mouse to manually change Netscape's preferences
for
> it just to pop one account at a time, phhhhhhhh). I've been using wvdial as
my ppp
>setup is not fine yet (and pppd complains about secrets it doesn't find... not
a
> permission problem as I was firing as root... wvdial itself stored the
secrets...
> well that's another problem, I'll just see the docs).
>The best connection I get is
> CONNECT 50666 V42bis
> (but sometimes tonight on the same ISP I got 48000 or little more, sometimes
> actually it was around 32000).
>As in your other system, the further setup you suggested via setserial seems
>absolutely uninfluent on the results (unless I add the flag spd_hi, which
makes the
>connection speed stay at just 14400, always V42bis).
>If I just ask what's the setup without imposing any parameter:
> # setserial /dev/ttyS14
> /dev/ttyS14, UART: undefined, Port: 0x0100, IRQ: 3
>and appearently it works the same.
>I've been running kernel 2.2.14.
Just posting this in case someone else need it. In my previous post, I forgot
to mention that I'm running 2.2.13 with the following option enabled :
Character devices --> Support more than 4 serial ports
Character devices --> Support for sharing serial interrupts
I'm not sure if these options matter. In my quest for making the modem work,
I
enabled them after having seen THIS MESSAGE from the modem module :
" Lucent Modem driver version 4.27.5.66 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT
SHARE_IRQ enabled"
Anyway, I use the PCI Lucent modem every day and it works flawlessy. The ISA
version worked the few times I used it, but I mostly use my laptop in a
networked
environment, so I can't say how good it works.
Ciao
---------
FB
