Re: [aclug-L] Modem configuration question

[Steven Saner <ssaner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Once you get your modem working, look at the following page for
information about getting PPP setup to connect to SouthWind.

http://www.aclug.org/ispconn/



On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 12:29:39AM -0500, Brian J Chapman wrote:
> The PC architecture was designed in the Dark Ages and has plagued mankind
> ever since. IRQ 9 _IS_ IRQ 2, i forget the technical reason at the moment
> but basicaly just think of 9 as a mirror to 2 and never set anything on
> it otherwise strange happenings may abound.
> 
> 
> -- Brian James Chapman <bchapman@xxxxxxxxx>
> "Absolutely nothing should be concluded from these figures except that no
> conclusion can be drawn from them." -- Joseph L. Brothers,
> Linux/PowerPC Project
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Greg House wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > My name is Greg House and I'm fairly new to this list.  Been reading on the
> > web archive for awhile, but just got on last week.  I also just started
> > working with Linux.  While I've been experimenting with several different
> > distributions on my PC, the current one is Slackware (3.5).
> > 
> > I've been trying to set up a PPP connection to my ISP (Southwind) and I'm
> > having a little trouble.  I apologize if this is a FAQ, but I've looked
> > around a bit (PPP HOWTO, PPP FAQ, Serial HOWTO) and haven't found this.
> > 
> > I have a modem (Harmony 56Kflex) that's set up as COM4 to DOS, it's IRQ 9,
> > I/O address 0x2E8.  It's been over a year since I built this PC and I think
> > there was some conflict that made me move the IRQ out there, but I don't
> > honestly remember what the reason was.  Anyway, that's where it's at right
> > now.  My understanding is that since this is a "nonstandard" IRQ, I need to
> > use setserial to configure the IRQ for the device.  I tried this and it
> > didn't correctly change the IRQ.
> > 
> > I use the command:
> > 
> > /sbin/setserial /dev/cua3 irq 9
> > 
> > This changed my IRQ to 2...  I don't understand how that happened.  I edited
> > rc.serial (in /etc/rc.d/) and commented out the setserial line that
> > autosensed the IRQ and put in one to explicitly set it to 9.  When the
> > system is rebooted, setserial -a (or -b) says it's set to 3.  If I use the
> > setserial command above, it sets it to 2.
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Greg
> > 
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