On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, jack wallen, jr. wrote:
> has any come across red hat 6.1 totally rendering a external modem
> useless? last night my modem's (connected to ttyS0) speaker went dead and
> then would no longer connect. when i checked i found that i was getting
> an error that it could not activate /sysconfig/ifcfg-ppp
>
> i ended up re-installing but a fresh install did the same thing. then i
> loaded up 6.0 and the problem was solved.
>
> if anyone has come across this problem, and knows of a solution, i'd much
> appreciate it.
>
> Jack Wallen, Jr.
> Editor in Chief of Linux Content
> www.techrepublic.com
I had this problem and posted about it on the cartman-list. I reverted
back to 6.0 also so I haven't been able to test the one solution I've
heard proposed. The proposed solution:
In /etc/conf.modules add the lines
alias char-major-4 serial
alias char-major-5 serial
If I remember correctly, the serial stuff is compiled into the default
Red Hat kernel and not as modules thus making the contents of
/etc/conf.modules irrelavent in this respect. That is why I haven't been
convinced yet to reload 6.1 and try this. Am I misunderstanding
something? Anyone else have any insights?
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Ron Golan
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