[ltp] mwave on tp600e makes me crazy

Thomas Hood linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:53:19 +0200


On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 16:26 +0200, Davide Natalini wrote:
> root@thinkpad:~# /etc/init.d/mwavem start
> ttyS1 at port 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> Starting Mwave modem: (module:) mwave
> 
>  ...and nothing more. I can switch to another console (I'm in textual 
> mode) but I connot kill it nor shutdown.
> Could it be a hardware problem?
> Has anybody out there seen something like this?


Perhaps an IRQ conflict between the Mwave modem and a serial port?

Try rebuilding the debian package from source

   apt-get source mwavem
   cd mwavem-1.0.4
   debuild

and installing the result.  Let us know if this makes a difference.

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Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>