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 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.
I (the original poster) went back to pcmcia-source 3.0.14 yesterday and everything is up and running again. pcmcia-cs is 3.1.8-4 and setserial is still installed. -- Philip Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
