On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 07:45:21AM -0600, Brad Davis wrote: > I'm trying to get a PCI-USRobotics Modem (Yes, it is a true hardware > modem) working on a G4 with Kernel version 2.6.10/2.6.11. > > When I try to "modprobe 8250_pci". I get the following > error message: > > WARNING: Error inserting 8250 > (/lib/modules/2.6.10enrock.2/kernel/drivers/serial/8250.ko): No such > device
This would be the root case. 8250 is _never_ supposed to fail with ENODEV, even if it doesn't detect any devices itself. And doesn't fail like this. > FATAL: Error inserting 8250_pci > (/lib/modules/2.6.10enrock.2/kernel/drivers/serial/8250_pci.ko): > Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) > > It looks to me like the 8250 module isn't recognizing the modem as a > seial port. The appropriate lines from dmesg are: > > serial8250_init: nothing to do on PowerMac serial8250_init does not contain any such message, so you're not running a mainline kernel, but some patched version. Are these patches available somewhere? I guess these patches are your problem, and it seems that there's at least one which is completely unnecessary or inappropriate. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/