Hello all, I recently upgraded to RH4.2 and have been having problems using my modem while running X. I had been using RH2.0 (I think; 2.x anyway), under which my modem (USR Sportser 14400) worked fine - never a problem. Now, I can operate it when on the console no problem, but the port seems to hang up completely under X. Symptoms; a) I connect to my ISP on the console, and run a continual ping to some machine. I can see the rx/tx lights flashing on the modem. I switch to another virtual console and run X (SVGA, CL542x server) and as soon as the screen blanks (after the config details scroll up the screen) the ping hangs; the line is still up, but there's no activity through the modem, and my ping command on the console is acting like the plug's been pulled. b) I log in and run startx. I open an xterm and run my dialup command, which fails to initialise the modem. Nothing. In both case, exiting the xserver and attempting to run the dialup script from the console again results in a `failed to initialise modem' error and I have to reboot to get the thing to respond again. Even worse, very occasionally it will actually work with the xserver running, but this seems to be completely random and irreproducible. setserial displays the exact same info before and after the breakdown, but after it hangs there's a noticable delay before setserial returns the port info. Other than that I'm completely lost. Any ideas? I can't find anything in FAQs or list archives. TIA, Robin. -- Robin Wardle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
