Oh wise ones,
I am having problems with my modem. The modem is a PnP modem so I
have to initialize it with a dos PnP driver and then use loadlin to
boot. This is the time line and scenarios:
1) Had 0.93 w/ 1.2.13 minicom/pppd/chat all worked great, ppp/slhc as
modules. Modem is /dev/cua1 and is initialized by setserial at irq3.
2) Upgraded to 1.1 but needed 1.2.13 for a non-debian package. So I
got the a.out gcc and libs and made a new 1.2.13 kernel.
Slhc would not load saying it couldn't find kernel_version(a
variable defined in slhc.c) hence pppd wouldn't work, minicom
worked. I tried Pppd/slhc as both modules and built in. With the
2.0.0 kernel ppp/slhc would load as modules or could be built in
but when pppd was started it said the kernel did not support PPP!
Minicom worked. I had xringd in rc2.d which failed on the 1.2.13
system but didn't interfere with the 2.0.0 system when using minicom.
3) Got a new version of the non-debian package that worked on 2.0.x
kernels. Got the latest kernel-source package from debian, 2.0.6.
Made new kernel with ppp/slhc as modules. Same result as #2. Tried
ppp/slhc built in, same result as #2.
4) Decided to try latest kernel 2.0.20. Built the new kernel with
ppp/slhc as modules. Now when I tried minicom it said that
that /dev/cua1 was busy!? I stopped xringd and minicom loaded but
would not dial out. When I exit minicom the modem flashes,
ie. off hook for a split second. Tried pppd and it loaded but
chat did the same thing with the modem, wouldn't dial out but when
it timed out on failure the modem flashed. I removed xringd from
rc2.d with no luck.
5) I decided to boot with earlier kernels that I still had, all are
now doing the same thing as in #4!!!!!!!!!! So I figured that
some how /dev/cua1 got hosed so I did a MAKEDEV on ttyS1 and that
did not fix it.
HELP! The modem works fine under Win95 although it says it is COM3 at
IRQ 11. I can't even dial out with minicom no. Should I reinstall
the base package? How can a kernel hose the com port or other devices
which it only uses and doesn't install? I am really desperate here!!
Brian Servis
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http://widget.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis
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