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 and reload serial port configuration information before > PCMCIA card services tries to load a serial port associated with the > modem card you insert. Often what happens is setserial assigns > /dev/ttyS0 - /dev/ttyS3 and irqs 3 and 4. When card services tries > to allocate resources and interrupts to the PCMCIA modem card it can't > find a free IRQ. > > 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. > > Chris
FWIW, my setserial is seeing the port ttyS1, even though it is disabled in the bios. /cat/interrupts, OTOH, does not show irq 3, which makes me think one of those information is wrong. But the fact that the modem is slow while using irq 3... and if I disable ttyS1 through setserial command, I can't get ttyS1 (now owned by pcmcia) to work at all with the card(s). damir