[ltp] Re: Wvdial cant get serial info

[Michael Waters]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:00 +1000, Shorty wrote:
> This isnt really thinkpad specific, (I dont think) but at am a loss to fix
> it. Running debian sarge with slmodem 2.9.9-alsa. After an upgrade (which I
> havent done for some time due to being on dial up) all of a sudden wvdial
> cant use the modem. I get the error
> cannot open /dev/ttySLO
> cannot get info for serial port
> This is the first time wvdial has played up on me. Have tried booting into
> older kernels (am running 2.6.10) but still the same error. I even tried
> compiling with the slamr module and now I cant even load the module, which I
> have also never had a problem with before. I do have the /dev/ttySLO in dev
> directory with root permissions and group of uucp. Tried playing with
> permissions, but dont think thats the problem. Ran setserial to see what it
> says (dont really know much about the whole thing) and it reports same
> error. This has me stumped. I had about 300 things upgraded so I have no
> idea what could be causing the problem. This is all on a r40. Hopefully
> someone can point me in the right direction as I only have dial up at home
> and dont want to have to restore to an older image.

Someone reported the same problem with wvdial here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=297694 .  Maybe
downgrading wvdial will work for you.

Michael