On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 07:25:53PM +0800, Alex Kwan wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I installed the basic debian potato system on my laptop by
> disks-i386/2.2.15-2000-06-07, my pcmcia ethernet card is
> working fine, but the pcmcia modem card can't ppp dial-out
> (no dial tone, but can bring up the /dev/modem device),
> than I downgrade to installed the slink 2.1R5, everything is
> alright, I can dialout to my ISP now (exactly same configuration
> and process as install the potato).
> Is this a bug of potato-2.2.15-2000-06-07 or only my
> system's problem?
Yes it is a kernel bug. See the the debian-laptop list archives
from the past week or so and read more about it. The problem
occurs when the potato pcmcia-3.1.8 package is installed. According
to David Hinds, changes were made in that release to the serial
module that discovered a bug in the kernel code. 3.1.9 and later
have implemented a work-around. In the mean time, this sequence
of commands may work:
Log in as root and issue:
cardctl eject
rmmod serial
modprobe serial
carctl insert
After doing that my pcmcia modem worked flawlessly. Earlier this
week I installed kernel 2.2.15 (potato source) and pcmcia 3.1.14
(compiled from the woody distro source).
HTH!
- Nate >>
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