[aclug-L] Re: Newbie's Modem Installtion problem

[John Phillips <jphillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Use setserial to set the IRQ to 5.  The set serial command can be in
/etc/rc.d/rc.local so it will run at each boot.



On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, ccwoo wrote:

> I have checked the log files and got the following message in /var/log/dmesg
> :-
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -
> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
> Initializing RT netlink socket
> Starting kswapd v 1.5
> Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
> Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.9)
> Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
> RAM disk driver initialized:  16 RAM disks of 4096K size
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---
> 
> I suspect there's a conflict in IRQ since both ttyS00 and ttyS02 are using
> the same IRQ. I've set the jumper on the card to use IRQ 5, and also to
> reserve IRQ 5 for ISA card in my BIOS setting. But it still didn't work.
> 
> I've also checked that my PPP is looking for my modem at /dev/ttyS02,which
> is correct.
> 
> Anything else that i could do ?
> 
> Thanks guys.
> 
> chen
> 
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