After buying a pcmcia nic I thought that upgrading the pcmcia-* packages and recompiling the pcmcia modules would be a good idea. While I was at it, I upgraded modutils as well. Now I'm running:
pcmcia-cs_3.1.8-4.deb pcmcia-source_3.1.8-4.deb modutils_2.3.9-2.deb I didn't even start to mess with the nic yet, because this broke my ppp setup somehow. I have a 56K pcmcia modem, running as ttyS2 (pppd uses /dev/modem which is a symlink pointing to /dev/ttyS2). Now, whenever I fire up pppd I get: Jan 15 19:16:30 sirius pppd[352]: pppd 2.3.5 started by lehman, uid 1001 Jan 15 19:16:30 sirius pppd[352]: tcgetattr: Input/output error(5) Jan 15 19:16:31 sirius pppd[352]: Exit. ...just as if the modem wasn't inserted at all. But when inserting the modem, the output of cardmgr looks ok: Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius cardmgr[109]: initializing socket 2 Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius cardmgr[109]: socket 2: Serial or Modem Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius cardmgr[109]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.2.9/pcmcia/serial_cs.o' Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius kernel: tty02 at 0x17f8 (irq = 5) is a 16550A Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius cardmgr[109]: executing: './serial start ttyS2' And setserial says: [lehman] ~>sudo setserial -a /dev/ttyS2 /dev/ttyS2, Line 2, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x17f8, IRQ: 5 Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0 closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte Flags: spd_normal skip_test I checked /etc/pcmcia.conf and /etc/pcmcia/serial.opts and didn't find anything that looks offensive to me. What's going on here? I don't know how to track this down, any help appreciated... TIA -- Sent through Global Message Exchange - http://www.gmx.net