On Saturday 29 August 2009 23:00:53 David Baron wrote: > On Thursday 27 August 2009 16:53:08 David Baron wrote: > > > > My (older analog hw) modem, had connected on /dev/ttyS2, no longer > > > > works, say in minicom. I am running Sid. Anything I should know about > > > > here? > > > > > > There is a lot we should know about here if we are to help you. > > > Exactly what model modem do you have, exactly what have you tried, and > > > exactly what happened? > > > > This is an older "davicom" rockwell 336 hayes compatible speakerphone > > modem > > > > Until two days ago, all was fine. Minicom and my phone plasmoid both > > worked. > > > > Yesterday, it was no longer possible to use the modem. Plasma-desktop > > hung up loading the plasmoid. Without the plasmoid, going to a terminal > > and using minicom also got no results. It could exit OK after a timeout. > > Xringd (upon which I based the ringer of the plasmoid) will load without > > complaint but will not respond to rings. Terminating that also takes > > time. > > Another possiblity is that init stuff upgrades affected this. I believe > that the bootup use to show this modem on ttyS2. Now it just shows the > modem without any connection. > > Or do I assume that card died (still identifies for PNP)?
So I plugged in a Sportster jumpered for "com3," it got set up on /dev/ttyS2 and failed in the same manner. So it is not the card. I put the Davicom back int. It got configured on .... /dev/ttyS1 this time, and ... it worked. So what did get changed in the inits? IRQ conflicts that were not a problem before? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
