The future has arrived. I didn't wait long enough. I turned my back, and sure enough the serial ports were back on auto and I couldn't connect. It wasn't different versions of setserial as I had thought. Anyway, Brandon, your solution of adding "serial" to /etc/modules appears to have worked. It's been an hour now and my modem remains set to irq 3. Thanks for solving the problem, for me. John B
John Bagdanoff wrote: > Hi, Brandon > > Sorry I didn't see your message sooner. What I ended up doing is reverting > the > slink setserial back to the hamm one, and that took care of the problem. I > think I'll leave well enough alone, but will save your message for a future > attempt. > Thanks > John B > > Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > > On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, John Bagdanoff wrote: > > > > > So I don't get the SETSERIAL not found anymore on bootup, but I still > > > have to reset the irq to 3 before I reconnect to my isp before every > > > session. > > > > > > I thought at first this change of behavior was due to installing slink > > > from my hamm partition, but I also upgraded most of my hamm to slink > > > packages at about the same time. What might I have changed to make > > > /dev/ttS2 to revert back to irq 4 all the time? I plan to pull out my > > > modem and change the jumper setting, but before I do that, I'd like to > > > understand why this is happening. > > > > This has happened to me. Just add "serial" to /etc/modules. If you > > don't, serial is autoloaded whenever you need it, but with the default > > values. After a while, it is unloaded again, unless you have this line in > > your /etc/modules. > > > > HTH, > > Brandon > > > > +--- ---+ > > | Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bmitch.nws.net/ ICQ 30631197 > > | > > | Throughout history, UNIX systems have regulary been broken into, beaten, | > > | brutalized, corrupted, commandeered, compromised, and illegally fscked. | > > | -- UNIX System Administration Handbook | > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
