Thanks for all the help, the solution was to use the setserial auto stuff,
it turns out that setserial decided to use IRQ 0! Never would of figured
that. But I get get to start all over now.
The xserver refused to start today, it said the it could not find the font
needed. After some tweaking and poking around I got mad and thru in an old
(4.0) slackware cd and tried to install that. Unfortunately the cd was
scratched in just the wrong place and lilo screwed up, and since I lent my
brother (who lives an hour away) the mandrake cd I couldn't fix it or boot
windows. So I had to use the partial slack install, load lynx and setup the
modem and download wertern digital's easy drive software to a floppy. Then
use a old 486 to run the program and write the boot disk for western
digital, now I can boot windows again. Sometimes Linux is a real pain too!
But at least I can always get support from good people like you guys, that
makes up for any lack of software or configuration headaches. Its the people
who make linux rock!
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian T.
Schellenberger
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 6:41 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] dev busy problems
This is probably NOT the problem, but sometimes a file is software
locked by locking the file (including a device) in /var/lock/<file>.
I thought you might want to check there for ttyS1.
That apparently wasn't it, and I'm afraid it's all I had to suggest;
you've already tried all the stuff that looks reasonable to me.
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| Nothing is /var/lock that stood out. Say more about /var/lock.
|
| Thanks
|
| Tom
|
| "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
| >
| > You might want to check out /var/lock just for grins . . .
| >
| > On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| > | DD
| > |
| > |
| > | As root try this command:
| > |
| > | /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS1 auto_irq skip_test autoconfig
| > |
| > | If it works then put in your /etc/rc.d/rc.serial. Also change ttyS1 to
| > | the serial port that your modem is on (0 is #1, 1 is #2, etc). Make
the
| > | file executable if you created an rc.serial, do not worry about
anything
| > | else. The startup script will run this during boot if it exists.
| > |
| > | If it does not work then change the irq to something that is not
| > | assigned and then back the irq for the serial port (irq 4 or irq 3).
For
| > | my laptop I use irq 6. You cannot put this in a startup script. I do
not
| > | know why and have not hacked thru it to find out. I just know that it
| > | works for my laptop pcmcia modem.
| > |
| > |
| > | Tom
| > |
| > | Dennis Davis wrote:
| > | >
| > | > Hello
| > | > I have been using Slackware for some time now, got a
Mandrake 6.1 dist with
| > | > a programming book (GNU C++ for Linux, by Tom Swan). It looked
pretty good
| > | > so I tried it,
| > | > all was well until I tried to use sound and modem. They are both
pnp. I've
| > | > set them up before
| > | > without problem, but now if I try to use them I get a busy notice.
I've
| > | > checked /proc and made
| > | > sure that the io and irq's are not used, and I've tried using
minicom with
| > | > the modem to make sure
| > | > it wasn't an X problem. But minicom just tells me that I'm online
already
| > | > (I'm not) and
| > | > kppp says that the modem is busy? All I can think of is that it
must be in
| > | > the startup
| > | > scripts somewhere and since I came from slackware, Mandrake's
startup stuff
| > | > is different and I
| > | > haven't figured it out yet. I did managed to screw-up my ptys
though, system
| > | > says it cannot open master side of pty. I really would like to keep
this
| > | > dist on as it has many more featuers
| > | > than the slackware 4.0 that I have. Can anyone help with this?
| > | > Thanks Dennis
| > | >
| > | > P.S I used to use configuration manager for pnp. Its a kernel patch
that
| > | > puts a dir in proc /proc/cm. I could then enable my pnp modem for
instance
| > | > by putting a simple
| > | > line in my rc.local script ie. echo d serial,gvc1601 a 2
>/proc/cm/conf .
| > | > This patch
| > | > was by David Howells I belive. I haven't been able to find it again
and all
| > | > I have left in a
| > | > diskette with a 2.0 something kernel on it. It boots nicely but
still
| > | > getthat device busy with mandrake installed!
| > | > Does anyone know where I can find the current patch? It used to be
| > | > ??.helmet.???.???, Please don't respond with the pnp stuff included
with the
| > | > kernel source(it sucks).
| > --
| > I am "Brian, the man from babble-on" (Brian T. Schellenberger).
| > I can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
| > I support http://www.eff.org & http://www.programming-freedom.org .
| > I boycott amazon.com. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/amazon.html .
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