* Re: [gentoo-user] Solved: pppconfig can't find internal modem.
[not found] ` <20070518030808.GA12750@waltdnes.org>
@ 2007-05-18 18:10 99% ` Mick
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From: Mick @ 2007-05-18 18:10 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Friday 18 May 2007 04:08, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 04:18:54PM -0400, waltdnes@waltdnes.org 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.
I have to run setserial manually to get my IrDA recognised. Not sure if this
is a change in later kernels and/or udev. I would have thought that it would
be picked up by the kernel/udev without much drama, but it seems that
setserial is needed hereafter?
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Regards,
Mick
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