Hi All!! I have got the PCMCIA modem problem sorted out. I am not sure what the problem was but it does look like it needed the "generic serial" kernel module that was it needed as far as the device irq conflicts and stuff goes. I followed some of the things in the ISP how-to and somehow the modem started dialling atleast!! But now the problem is one of PAP authentication failure. I checked the PAP-secrets file and made sure it had the correct user-name and password neeed for authentication at the dial-up server. I get the message saying "panic looks like a login prompt ... sent login and password ....." and in the syslog file in /var/log the message is "PAP authentication failed. I am using Debian 2.2 potato with 2.2.18pre21 version of the kernel.
Now another thins I have been doing in the adventure of mine with linux/debian is adding a hard-disk to the docking station. here is the set-up i have. I have a 486 laptop(Compaq LTE Elite) with 1.3 GB hard-disk space. And a docking station attached to this lap-top. Now the kernel is able to access the docking system devices(or devices in the docking system, like PS/2 mouse ports, the newly added hard-disk via some (lap-top to docking station) interface, (I dont know what exactly the interface is but it appears to be a PCMCIA type III port) now i would like to add the new hard-drive i added to the docking bay. I tried the command prompt> mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdb and got the message /dev/hdb is an entire device, not just one partition! proceed anyway?(y, n) -----> i answer y here and get the message mkfs.ext2: Device not configured while trying to determine filesystem size My question is am i doing the right thing here? in running the mkfs command directly?? or do i need to do any configuring here?? which seems very likely here from the messages, and if so how?? thanks, praveen
