Re: [gentoo-user] Solved: pppconfig can't find internal modem.

[Mick]

On Friday 18 May 2007 04:08, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 04:18:54PM -0400, waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote
>
> >   My ADSL connection had a short outage yesterday.  I discovered, to my
> > consternation, that my machine's internal modem wasn't being picked up.
> > This is a 1999 Dell PIII that refuses to die.  The PCI modem has worked
> > in the past under Redhat and Gentoo.  I am aware that I have to allocate
> > more than 4 serial ports in make menuconfig.  "lspci -v" shows...
> >
> > 00:10.0 Serial controller: 3Com Corp, Modem Division 56K FaxModem Model
> > 5610 (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [16550]) Subsystem: 3Com Corp, Modem Division
> > Unknown device baba Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
> >         I/O ports at 1430 [size=8]
> >         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
>
>   A rather heavy-handed solution was to emerge "setserial" and execute
>
> setserial /dev/ttyS4 port 0x1430 irq 9
>
>   This initializes the port, and pppconfig now finds /dev/ttyS4 when
> doing an auto-probe.  And dialup works.  This is nice to know, because
> I'll be moving later this summer, and may be dialup-only for a few weeks
> depending on circumstances.
>
>   I've copied the above setserial command to /etc/conf.d/local.start to
> ensure it's automatically executed at bootup.

I have to run setserial manually to get my IrDA recognised.  Not sure if this 
is a change in later kernels and/or udev.  I would have thought that it would 
be picked up by the kernel/udev without much drama, but it seems that 
setserial is needed hereafter?
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Regards,
Mick