On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:48:55AM -0500, Ken Januski wrote: > Pigeon wrote: > >Your /proc/interrupts output shows irq 3 being allocated to "serial", > >which is probably the serial port being used for your modem, which > >probably explains why ppp is involved in the conflict. > > > >Rather than trying to force the ethernet card to use another IRQ, it > >may be easier to force the serial port to use another IRQ, by changing > >its config in your BIOS Setup. IRQ 4 would be a good alternative, > >since it is (a) a standard for serial ports and (b) not currently in > >use. Check your init.d setserial settings as well. > > > Thanks Pigeon, > > I've been experimenting wth changing settings in serial.conf but have > had no luck. Though dmesg says that a modem is found at ttys00 with an > irq of 4 setting that in serial.conf results in a hanging modem. I keep > having to set it to ttys0 with irq of 3.
...which is a little puzzling, because irq 4 is the standard for ttyS0. What does 'setserial /dev/ttyS0' report? What you set in serial.conf should follow what the BIOS setup has been configured to; ie. you configure the BIOS setup, and then change serial.conf to correspond with it (if the kernel hasn't figured it out automatically). And, your modem really is on ttyS0 (COM1)? Do you have a serial mouse? Does the output from 'cat /proc/interrupts' change according to whether ppp is or isn't running? > I'm really unclear about how to > change anything in the bios setup. Can you give me any idea as to how to > try that? It's hard to be specific because this varies according to what BIOS you have and how old it is. Basically, at the start of the boot process - the bit where it does the memory test - you get the chance to press a magic key, often DEL or F2 but unfortunately there are plenty of other ones used by different BIOSes, which brings up a set of menus; somewhere under this there are usually options for configuring the serial (and parallel) ports, which allow you to specify what address and IRQ they are to use. You then press another magic key, usually F10, to save your changes and reboot. The best way to find specific information is to try and download the manual for your motherboard from the manufacturer's website; if you can't find it there, google for it. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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