[ltp] A30P Questions

[Gerard van Winssen]

Op woensdag 8 januari 2003 13:56, schreef Frank Roberts - SOTL:


> I have Kppp working on 2 desktop boxes running RH 7.3 I just can not seem
> to get it to work correctly in the Thinkpad running Mandrake 9.0 which
> leads me to believe that it is a Mandrake issue not a Kppp issue.

Assuming you are using A pcmcia serial modem, you might have A irq problem.
When you insert the modem, you hear the 2 beeps, but you can't query the the 
modem in Kppp?

I had this problem with many linux installs from various distro's.
I always solve it when I edit /etc/pcmcia/config.opts.
Do as root : cardctl config
Watch the irq that is assigned, and then go to /etc/pcmcia/config.opts.
Make sure you uncomment the line that mentions the irq;
exclude irqx
Where x stands for the irq that is assigned to the modem.
If there is no line with the irq that is assigned to your modem, add one 
yourself.
Save the file and restart pcmcia sevice.

If you do cardctl config again, you see that you have another irq assigned to 
your modem.
If this does not help, add another line to exclude the new irq.

On one computer I had to eclude all of the available irq's until no irq was 
assigned to my modem before KPPP would work...
A piece of my  /etc/pcmcia/config.opts:

# First built-in serial port
exclude irq 4
# Second built-in serial port
exclude irq 3
# First built-in parallel port
exclude irq 7
exclude irq 10
exclude irq 12
exclude irq 5
exclude irq 9

Om my Thinkpad with MDK 9.0 I had to exclude only one irq.

This is also discribed in the pcmcia HOWTO.

Succes,

Gerard