Laszlo Ladanyi wrote: > I don't think this is exactly correct. The > include port 0xa00-0xaff > line only means that the pcmcia driver can use that address for IO port > purposes. The comment above that line means that no other card but the IBM > tokenring card is known to request anything in that memory range. > > On the other hand, it is possible that the driver picks a memory range in that > segment to pass to the linksys card for use and the card is not happy with > it. If that's the case, then commenting out the line (effectively forbidding > the driver to use that range) does help.
Hhmmm. I think that IO port range is the one the card was using when I
checked under Windoze. And commenting out that line did let the modem work.
The rest of that explanation I cribbed from the web site that I got the info
from. And of course now I can't find that site again. ::grumble:: Should
have bookmarked it. Ah well. For all I know I've got a couple of different
things combined in my head or some such thing.
I could well have gotten the reason why completely fouled up, but the most
important part here is that commenting out that line is what made the modem
start working again. Though if anyone here kows for sure and for certain
*why* commenting out that line lets the modem work, I would certainly be
interested to know. Even if for no other reason than mere curiosity.
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Mike Werner wrote:
>
> >
> > LinuxKnight wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > The networking works fine, but I can't get the modem to work. I know it
> > > does work, because a while ago, I had both network and modem working in
> > > RedHat 6.1. Then I upgraded to 6.2 shortly after it came out, and the
> > > modem stopped working- network still worked.
> > <snip>
> > > If anyone can give pointers for getting the modem part working (while not
> > > sacrificing the networking obviously ;-) ) I would appreciate it.
> >
> > I too got bitten by this one. Fortunately, it is a *very* easy fix. All
> > that needs done is open the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts in an editor, find the
> > lines that say:
> >
> > # Extra port range for IBM Token Ring
> > include port 0xa00-0xaff
> >
> > and comment out that second line. Restart the PCMCIA services, and the
> > modem should now work.
<snip some probably completely wrong stuff>
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| everything is of great understanding,
'91 GS500E | for belief in one false principle is the
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