On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 04:18:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > My ADSL connection had a short outage yesterday. I discovered, to my > consternation, that my machine's internal modem wasn't being picked up. > This is a 1999 Dell PIII that refuses to die. The PCI modem has worked > in the past under Redhat and Gentoo. I am aware that I have to allocate > more than 4 serial ports in make menuconfig. "lspci -v" shows... > > 00:10.0 Serial controller: 3Com Corp, Modem Division 56K FaxModem Model 5610 > (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550]) > Subsystem: 3Com Corp, Modem Division Unknown device baba > Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9 > I/O ports at 1430 [size=8] > Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
A rather heavy-handed solution was to emerge "setserial" and execute setserial /dev/ttyS4 port 0x1430 irq 9 This initializes the port, and pppconfig now finds /dev/ttyS4 when doing an auto-probe. And dialup works. This is nice to know, because I'll be moving later this summer, and may be dialup-only for a few weeks depending on circumstances. I've copied the above setserial command to /etc/conf.d/local.start to ensure it's automatically executed at bootup. -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 Q. Mr. Ghandi, what do you think of Microsoft security? A. I think it would be a good idea. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
