>>>>> "lehman" == lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
lehman> After buying a pcmcia nic I thought that upgrading the pcmcia-*
lehman> packages and recompiling the pcmcia modules would be a good
lehman> idea. While I was at it, I upgraded modutils as well. Now I'm
lehman> running:
lehman> pcmcia-cs_3.1.8-4.deb
lehman> pcmcia-source_3.1.8-4.deb
lehman> modutils_2.3.9-2.deb
lehman> I didn't even start to mess with the nic yet, because this broke
lehman> my ppp setup somehow. I have a 56K pcmcia modem, running as
lehman> ttyS2 (pppd uses /dev/modem which is a symlink pointing to
lehman> /dev/ttyS2). Now, whenever I fire up pppd I get:
I recently upgraded my laptop to Linux 2.2.14 (from 2.0.36) with the
latest pcmcia-* and modutils, too. I compiled both the kernel and the
pcmcia-source myself. I don't know if the kernel upgrade is
significant or the upgrade of pcmcia-*.
(I can't compile pcmcia-source for Linux 2.0.36 as my compiler is
too new. Perhaps I should try and compile pcmcia-* from slink
with Linux 2.2.14??? Will that work???)
I have a xircom combo Ethernet/28.8k Modem card. It works find with
Linux 2.0.36 and pcmcia-* from slink.
(sidenote: I have noticed recently that this card runs very hot - is
this normal?)
The Ethernet card part works fine.
lehman> Jan 15 19:16:30 sirius pppd[352]: pppd 2.3.5 started by lehman, uid
1001
lehman> Jan 15 19:16:30 sirius pppd[352]: tcgetattr: Input/output error(5)
lehman> Jan 15 19:16:31 sirius pppd[352]: Exit.
I haven't tried pppd myself, but minicom cannot talk to the modem (no
errors, just nothing displayed).
lehman> ...just as if the modem wasn't inserted at all. But when
lehman> inserting the modem, the output of cardmgr looks ok:
lehman> Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius cardmgr[109]: initializing socket 2
lehman> Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius cardmgr[109]: socket 2: Serial or Modem
lehman> Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius cardmgr[109]: executing: 'insmod
lehman> /lib/modules/2.2.9/pcmcia/serial_cs.o'
lehman> Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius kernel: tty02 at 0x17f8 (irq = 5) is a 16550A
lehman> Jan 15 19:17:28 sirius cardmgr[109]: executing: './serial start
ttyS2'
I get that too. Curiously, with the slink pcmcia-* packages, the
modem is assigned tty03, not tty02 - could that be significant?
lehman> And setserial says:
lehman> [lehman] ~>sudo setserial -a /dev/ttyS2
lehman> /dev/ttyS2, Line 2, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x17f8, IRQ: 5
lehman> Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
lehman> closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte
lehman> Flags: spd_normal skip_test
I get similar results from "setserial -a /dev/modem", but
"setserial -a /dev/ttyS2" just returns an error:
/dev/ttyS2: pcmcia controlled device (/var/run/stab)
lehman> I checked /etc/pcmcia.conf and /etc/pcmcia/serial.opts and
lehman> didn't find anything that looks offensive to me. What's
lehman> going on here? I don't know how to track this down, any help
lehman> appreciated...
Also, this isn't the worst of my problems... If I try to bootup with
the card in, or shutdown, the computer will lock up, and require a
hardware reset in order to fix the problem. Inserting/removing the
card after bootup seems to be OK though.
When I asked about this on the linux-kernel mailing list, somebody
suggested I replace the following parameter to my pcmcia.conf
file with:
PCIC_OPTS='pci_csc=0'
however, that doesn't help :-(.
--
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
