--- Kevin Penrose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Net Llama, > An honor to communicate with you! An honor? You are way too kind. I'm just the poor schmuck who couldn't figure out a modem problem. Turns out that this was purely a hardware issue. Did some more digging and found out that only 1 of the 4 PCI slots will provide a dedicated IRQ. I had tried all but that 1 slot :) Switched the modem to that slot, and I was good to go. Your (Kevin) setserial command then did the trick without any problems. Thanks to all for taking the time to look at this issue. -Lonni > > I hope I can help. > > Here is my lspci output for the modem: > 00:09.0 Serial controller: US Robotics: Unknown device 1008 (rev 01) > (prog-if 02) > Subsystem: Unknown device 12b9:00ad > Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10 > I/O ports at 1498 > Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 > > One thing I notice is that you do not specify the irq in your > setserial > statement, and you have auto_irq turned off. Here is > my setserial command: > :exec setserial /dev/ttyS4 irq 10 port 0x1498 ^fourport ^auto_irq > skip_test autoconfig spd_vhi > > I am running kernel 2.216 on an 700 MHz Athlon compaq machine. Compaq > > was no help when I first got this machine. > I'm glad to see that they are supporting linux more now. > > my /dev/ttyS4 looks slightly different, but that shouldn't matter: > crw-r----- 1 root root 4, 68 Jul 13 20:33 /dev/ttyS4 > > Do you have a link for /dev/modem? Mine looks like this: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 17 1999 /dev/modem -> > /dev/ttyS4 > > I tend to think your problem is the irq setting in the setserial > command. With auto-irq turned off, setserial doesn't know > where to find the interrupt. > Have you tried running the setserial command from the command line? > This may provide you with some more information. > > Good luck. Please let me know if I can be of any more assistance. ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux FAQ & Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
