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RE: pcmcia modem troubles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren Greer)
Mon Nov 30 17:40:43 1998
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 16:35:06 -0600
From: Darren Greer <drgreer@QTIWORLD.COM>
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cardmgr? I see nothing like that at startup....is it an option during install? That could be my problem...
Thanks,
DrGreer
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On 11/29/98, at 12:29 AM, Charles Galpin wrote:
>Darren
>
>I am by no means an expert, but I just installed my pcmcia modem, and it
>worked for me right out of the box.
>I think your tty00 statement is an external serial port. I get something
>like it too. Then after that, I see the cardmgr startup, the sockets are
>probed, and upon identifying my modem, it executes
>insmod /lib/modules/preferred/pcmcia/serial_cs.o
>then I get a line like your tty00 line, but for tty01, and then it executes
>./serial start ttyS1
>
>my /dev/modem is a sym link to /dev/cua1. Whatever you use will need be a
>/dev/cua*
>
>it looks to me like the serial script uses the serial.opts /dev/modem
>setting to create the necessary sym link dynamically during the call I
>mention above, and other actions it can do.
>
>have you tried the /sbin/cardctl command?
>
>hth
>charles
>
>===== Original Message from Darren Greer <redhat-list@redhat.com> at
>11/27/98 9:06 pm
>>Howdy all....I am trying to setup a pcmcia modem for the first time ever. And I am having
>some trouble. I have read through the PCMCIA-HOWTO but have had know luck
>with their suggestions. When I first boot my laptop, I get a tty00 0x03f8
>(IRQ 4)
>>16550A , statement. Can I assume that this is finding my pcmcia card, or is that the external
>serial port for the laptop. I have tried using tty00 but the device does
>not exist in my /dev/ dir. My serial.opts file is setup to name the device
>>/dev/modem but that device does not exist either. Is there something I am missing here....let
>me know if you need any more information. Thanks,
>>
>>DrGreer
>
>-- Charles Galpin <cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com>
>
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