I've tried to post this several times already over the course of the past few days,
but I have seen nothing appear on the reflector. Haven't received any bounce
messages either, so I don't know where the messages think they've been going.
Anyway, apologies if you've seen this before.
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A nasty problem....
1. Running Mandrake 7.0 without any fancy modifications on a 733 MHz Micron box.
2. I can access the modem just fine (e.g. for PPP, etc.) The modem is on
ttyS4 (COM5). [ Don't ask me, that's the way it came in WinDo$e, so I put it on
ttyS4 for Linux. ] I have /dev/modem soft linked to /dev/ttyS4.
3. I add a Linksys Ether PCI II card (no other NICs in the box).
4. Suddenly I can no longer access the modem. At all. In any program. kppp, for
example, says "searching for modem" and then "modem is busy". Even statserial
doesn't work (complains about TIOCMGET not being supported, although of course it
works fine when the network card is not in the box).
5. If I take the card out, I can access the modem again.
6. Even if I tell Kudzu not to configure the network card at boot time
(i.e. the third option of the three that are presented), I STILL can't get
to the modem if the network card is phsically inserted in a slot.
7. The really bad news is that everything works fine under WinDo$e.
Actually, I suppose that's not really so bad, because it at least
indicates that there's no fundamental hardware problem.
So, any ideas as to how I might be able to have a network and a modem at
the same time would be most welcome. Or even how to diagnose the problem.
Oh, some extra info:
The modem is on IRQ 10, and the network card is on IRQ5. The I/O addresses are also
nicely different.
And the network card appears to work OK (although I haven't "torture-tested" it,
having been too busy trying to figure out why I don't have a modem any more).
I have a separate serial port on COM1 (on the motherboard). It works fine regardless
of whether the network card is in place.
Doc Evans
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D.R. Evans N7DR / G4AMJ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Palindor Chronicles" information and extracts:
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