On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 06:15:03PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I have a vanilla installation of RH 6.1 on my Toshiba Portege 3025CT
> notebook. The machine comes with a 3Com pcmcia modem. A friend of mine has
> a similar model: the 3015CT. On his machine, minicom initializes the modem
> when the program is invoked; on mine it won't.
>
> I've tried my modem in either pcmcia slot without any difference. I put my
> friend's modem in my machine without any difference. I've compared the files
> config, config.opt and serial in /etc/pcmcia. I've compared the init strings
> in minicom, and both machines have /dev/modem as a symbolic link to
> /dev/ttyS1. Yet, on my machine, mimicom opens, but does not echo either the
> init string, or any other chars typed on the keyboard. In addition, minicom
> indicates that it is always on line -- even when there's no phone connection
> to the modem itself.
This sounds like the kudzu problem. Try disabling it or having it
start with the -s option. It baffled me for a week!
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