I assume you know as well, but you need to make sure you are logged in as root, before you run setserial... if not, find the command on your system using the "find / -name setserial*" command
my .02 J On Thursday 11 April 2002 10:56 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Thursday 11 April 2002 04:59 pm, C.J.Kent wrote: > > I have an internal non-PnP ISA modem that is working fine under windows > > and was working fine under Red Hat 6.1. I've replaced Red Hat with > > Mandrake 8.2 and cannot get the modem to work. The system is unable to > > detect the modem and when I tell it that it's /dev/ttyS2 it can't find > > anything. I suspect the problem is an incorrect IRQ. I've looked at > > /proc/<can't remember>/serial and it looks like ttyS2 is set to IRQ4 > > when the modem is on IRQ5. Everything I've found on the web says to use > > setserial to set the correct parameters for the serial ports. But > > setserial isn't there on my system. Any suggestions? > > > > Thanks > > CJ: > Are you sure about ttyS2? That corresponds to COM3: (port 0x3e8 and IRQ4). > While there is nothing wrong with that, it strikes me as being a wee bit > unconventional. Back in simpler times when 486's under DOS 3.2 reigned > supreme, modems were usually set to COM2: ==> ttyS1 (port 0x2fe and IRQ3); > AFAIK, this is still the usual way to go, but perhaps you have your > reasons. -- cmg -- Esler, Joel SGT, USA
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