Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-18 Thread Brian May
> "Christopher" == Christopher S Swingley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> A big guess, but are you guys sure you have no interrupt or >> similar conflicts? I have a problem with Xircom modem which >> sounds similar to the ones described in pcmcia-howto in >> relation to the inte

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-17 Thread Philip Lehman
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: >> The other poster has suggested removing setserial; is there anything >> bad that can result from it (i.e. what does setserial do on a laptop)? > >The reason the poster suggested that is because by default setserial >will store and reload seri

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-17 Thread Philip Lehman
> 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 don't think it's the kernel. I used to run 2.2.9

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-17 Thread lehman
> Hi Brian May; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > 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 b

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-17 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> > I haven't tried this solution yet with 3.1.8, but I'll give it a shot > > tomorrow and see if I can get my Xircom modem to work with the latest > > PCMCIA. > > FWIW, my setserial is seeing the port ttyS1, even though it is disabled > in the bios. /cat/interrupts, OTOH, does not show irq 3, whi

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-17 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Christopher S. Swingley; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > > The other poster has suggested removing setserial; is there anything > > bad that can result from it (i.e. what does setserial do on a laptop)? > > The reason the poster suggested that is because by default setserial > will store

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-17 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> The other poster has suggested removing setserial; is there anything > bad that can result from it (i.e. what does setserial do on a laptop)? The reason the poster suggested that is because by default setserial will store and reload serial port configuration information before PCMCIA card servi

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-16 Thread Dan Christensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > After buying a pcmcia nic I thought that upgrading the pcmcia-* > packages and recompiling the pcmcia modules would be a good > idea. [...] > this broke > my ppp setup somehow. I have a 56K pcmcia modem, running as > ttyS2 (pppd uses /dev/modem which is a symlink po

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-16 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> A big guess, but are you guys sure you have no interrupt or similar > conflicts? I have a problem with Xircom modem which sounds similar to > the ones described in pcmcia-howto in relation to the interrupt conflict > even though my /proc/interrupt doesn't show one. I have the same problem whene

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-16 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Brian May; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > 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 thoug

Re: Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-16 Thread Brian May
> "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

Upgrading pcmcia-* breaks ppp

2000-01-16 Thread lehman
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 wi