Hi all, I've recently upgraded my home system from a PII333 to an Athlon 1900+, so this of course required a new motherboard. I got an ASUS A7V333 PCI board. I had to replace my old USR Robotoics ISA modem with a PCI modem. I was given an AOpen K56-PM (this seems to be a winmodem, but that's another story). Before the upgrade I was running woody with 2.4.18, and the modem was on ttyS3. I have not changed the software, as the hard drives were not part of the upgrade.
After getting my new system I updated the kernel (still 2.4.18) to reflect the new hardware, and after reboots I was getting this message in the boot messages: 'ttyS3: LSR safety check engaged!' Needless to say, I couldn't access my new modem. A google search on this message shows that is a common problem, but I was unable to find a straight solution to it. I did find out that the first serial port in a PCI board is ttyS4 and then apparently you can't use setserial on PCI modems. To cut a long story slightly shorterr. I've found out this much: a) The BIOS is *not* using OS-PnP. So that should be fine. b) The BIOS is assigning IRQ 10 to the modem, the on-board sound controller (which works) & one of the USB ports c) the extended serial options are compiled into the kernel d) Removing the ttyS3 statement from /etc/serial.conf removes the 'ttyS3: LSR safety check engaged!' problem e) adding a ttyS4 statement to /etc/serial.conf (after creating the device with MAKEDEV) results in a 'ttyS4: LSR safety check engaged!' on bootup f) lspci -v shows the modem there with the right IRQ g) still can't talk to the serial port So, my question is: what am I missing? What do I need to do in order to get programs like 'wvdial' or 'pppconfig' to be able to talk to the modem? I'm afraid I can't give you output of commands because my computer is isolated ( no modem) ...:) Please reply to me as I'm not subscribed to the list. Thanks, David -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- David R. Ballantyne Ph: 416-978-1775 Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics Fax: 416-978-3921 University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Toronto, Ontario Canada M5S 3H8 Web: http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/~ballanty/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
