Hi Listers, I recently installed Debian 2.2R4 on my Dell Inspiron 3800 laptop which has a Pion Gold Card PCMCIA modem. During installation I wanted to update the base system using PPP, so I went through PPPSetup successfully, and it told me that it found the modem on /dev/ttyS1. This didn't surprise me - I have a single serial port and therefore the second serial port must be the PCMCIA card.
After running Debian happily for a few days I got the latest kernel source, 2.4.17 from kernel.org, and recompiled my kernel including PCMCIA and PPP support. When I boot up the computer beeps to say that it found my modem. However when I typed pon to initialise PPP I got the error message: ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged! printed out twice. The prompt didn't return, but when I hit enter I was returned to the prompt. Does anyone have any idea why this happens and how I can get PPP working? I have included part of my /var/log/messages file which I think may be of use. Thanks very much with any help. Regards, Saqib Shaikh Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site www.saqibshaikh.com Dec 26 22:02:42 debian kernel: ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged! Dec 26 22:02:42 debian kernel: ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged! Dec 26 22:02:42 debian kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: excluding 0xcf8-0xcff Dec 26 22:02:42 debian kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: excluding 0x800-0x84f 0x860-0x86f Dec 26 22:02:42 debian kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7 Dec 26 22:02:42 debian kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
