Hokay, I've tried going through my /usr/share/docs. Problem is, I have a minimal installation, so I don't have many. But, it was slow at work today, and I was able to look through some of the more relevant HOW-TOs, namely "serial" and "modem". Both of those said "if you have a PCMCIA modem, consult the PCMCIA How-To". It has been stated earlier in this thread that, wrt Macs, the PCMCIA How-To is, er, less that satisfactory (although I believe a more colourful metaphor was used).
I was given a couple of hopeful commands from the other How-To's. I don't seem to have "scanport" installed, and it's not on my Potato disks. I'm going to throw the results of everything else out there in hopes that somebody can tell me the relevant piece of information on how to connect my PCMCIA card to my /dev/modem and dial out when I type "pon". Let me apologise here for wasting bandwidth (especially for those of us in Europe that have to pay for our internet phone calls). But, I don't know what is relevant information. So, from the command "lspci -vv" I got: : 00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. Bandit PowerPC host bridge (rev 03) : Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- : Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- : Latency: 32, cache line size 08 : : 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21041 [Tulip Pass 3] (rev 21) : Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- : Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- : Latency: 32 : Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 60 : Region 0: I/O ports at 0400 [size=128] : Region 1: Memory at 80802000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128] : Expansion ROM at 80880000 [disabled] [size=256K] : : 00:0e.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. O'Hare I/O (rev 01) : Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- : Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR+ : Latency: 32, cache line size 08 : Region 0: Memory at 80900000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] : : 00:10.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. O'Hare I/O (rev 01) : Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- : Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR+ : Latency: 32, cache line size 08 : Region 0: Memory at f3000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] : : 00:11.0 VGA compatible controller: Chips and Technologies F65550 (rev 45) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) : Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B- : Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- : Region 0: Memory at 81000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] : Expansion ROM at 80840000 [disabled] [size=256K] : : 00:13.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1130 (rev 04) : Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- : Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- : Latency: 168, cache line size 08 : Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22 : Region 0: Memory at 80804000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] : Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=04, sec-latency=176 : Memory window 0: 80000000-803ff000 (prefetchable) : Memory window 1: f3400000-f37ff000 : I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff : I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff : BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset+ 16bInt- PostWrite+ : 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 : : 00:13.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1130 (rev 04) : Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- : Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- : Latency: 168, cache line size 08 : Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 23 : Region 0: Memory at 80803000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] : Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=09, sec-latency=176 : Memory window 0: 80400000-807ff000 (prefetchable) : Memory window 1: f3800000-f3bff000 : I/O window 0: 00004800-000048ff : I/O window 1: 00004c00-00004cff : BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset+ 16bInt+ PostWrite+ : 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 Don't know why Card Services (or whatever) keeps identifying my card as CardBus. I would have sworn that Apple only provided a 16-bit bridge on the 3400. If it is, in fact, CardBus 32-bit, then I no longer have to rely on legacy hardware. Anyway, here is my /proc/interrupts: : CPU0 : 4: 0 PMAC-PIC Edge SCC-txdma : 5: 0 PMAC-PIC Edge SCC-rxdma : 6: 0 PMAC-PIC Edge SCC-txdma : 7: 0 PMAC-PIC Edge SCC-rxdma : 8: 0 PMAC-PIC Edge Built-in Sound out : 9: 0 PMAC-PIC Edge Built-in Sound in : 12: 15 PMAC-PIC Edge MESH : 13: 4717 PMAC-PIC Edge ide0 : 14: 5 PMAC-PIC Edge ide1 : 15: 0 PMAC-PIC Edge SCC : 16: 0 PMAC-PIC Edge SCC : 17: 0 PMAC-PIC Edge Built-in Sound misc : 18: 38220 PMAC-PIC Edge VIA-PMU : 19: 0 PMAC-PIC Edge SWIM3 : 22: 0 PMAC-PIC Level Texas Instruments PCI1130 : 23: 0 PMAC-PIC Level Texas Instruments PCI1130 (#2) : 28: 5 PMAC-PIC Level cascade : 60: 5 GATWICK Level eth0 : BAD: 0 (what's the deal with airports? O'Hare, Gatwick?) Here's what I got from typing "lsmod": : Module Size Used by Tainted: P : lp 7936 0 (unused) : irnet 28092 0 (unused) : irlan 26648 0 (unused) : udf 93904 0 (unused) : msdos 6256 0 (unused) : fat 35228 0 [msdos] : autofs 12592 0 (unused) : dmasound_pmac 47144 0 (unused) : i2c-core 14776 0 [dmasound_pmac] : dmasound_core 13640 0 [dmasound_pmac] : sound 73480 0 (unused) : soundcore 4840 5 [dmasound_core sound] : st 29604 0 (unused) : sg 34452 0 (unused) : serial_cs 4928 0 (unused) : ds 8784 2 [serial_cs] : serial 53224 0 [serial_cs] : isa-pnp 36968 0 [serial] : yenta_socket 11216 2 : i82092 7812 0 (unused) : pcmcia_core 43376 0 [serial_cs ds yenta_socket i82092] : irtty 7232 0 (unused) : irport 7552 0 (unused) : irda 108484 0 [irnet irlan irtty irport] : ppp_async 8576 0 (unused) : ppp_synctty 7088 0 (unused) : slip 11408 0 (unused) : plip 14040 0 (unused) : parport 30624 0 [lp plip] : pppoe 9504 0 (unused) : pppox 1800 1 [pppoe] : ppp_generic 24632 0 [irnet ppp_async ppp_synctty pppoe pppox] : slhc 4832 0 [slip ppp_generic] : macserial 39364 0 (unused) : rtc 1792 0 (autoclean) This "macserial" looks interesting. Don't know what... it just does. Lastly, when I typed "setserial -gav /dev/ttyS*" I got: : /dev/ttyS0, Line 0, UART: 16450, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 22 : Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0 : closing_wait: 3000 : Flags: spd_normal skip_test : : /dev/ttyS1, Line 1, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3 : Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0 : closing_wait: 3000 : Flags: spd_normal skip_test : : /dev/ttyS2, Line 2, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4 : Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0 : closing_wait: 3000 : Flags: spd_normal skip_test : : /dev/ttyS3, Line 3, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3 : Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0 : closing_wait: 3000 : Flags: spd_normal I also tried "setserial /dev/ttyS* -v autoconfig", but ended up with the same information as the first line of the above quoted text. One of the How-To's (like the PCMCIA) said to look at the serial table in /var/lib/pcmcia/stab. I don't have a PCMCIA directory in /var/lib. Should I? Or has it moved elsewhere (I vaguely remember seeing an "stab" in some directory... I just can't remember which one at the moment). So, now that you've read this far, is there anything else I can do to try to get a connection to the outside world with Debian? Thanks, once again! Gratefully, Aaron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
