> Bjorn can you still check what IO ports your modem used when it was > still working, and what are the addresses now? Alas, I cannot- Most of the year I am at University, where I have no need of Dial-Up. I updated my kernel during this time, and did not think to retain the old one. If need be, I might be able to get it back, but I'd rather not unless it's necessary. Bjorn. Joern Wuestenfeld wrote: > Hello martian experts, > > I want to shed some more light on the issue raised by Bjorn. > As I wrote last Friday, I have a similar Problem with the PCMCIA code on > two different laptops. > One has a OpenSuSE 10.0 with kernel 2.6.26.3 and 2.6.28.1. > The other one has OpenSuSE 11.1 with the 2.6.27.21-pae kernel as Bjorn. > There exists a parallel installation of a Linpus Linux on it with a > 2.6.25.x kernel and a 2.6.28.1 and 2.6.29.3. > > So here are my observations: > > 1.) On 2.6.25.x I get a "IRQ nobody cared" message, following a > disabling of the IRQ used by the modem. > This results in a "No modem found" message by wvdial. > > 2.) Under 2.6.26.3 everything works fine, modem gets IRQ 3 and IO-Port > 0x2f8 and com port 0x100. > > 3.) Under 2.6.28.1 Modem can dial and receives "CONNECT 50xxx NoECC" > message from ISP, but immediately > afterwards it hangs up. > Here the IRQ is 3 and IO-port is 0x32f8 and com port 0x100. > The same situation hold true for 2.6.29.3 kernel. > > > The only difference is the IO port address. As the same problem exists > on different machines, I think the driver code itself can be ruled out > as the source of the problem, as otherwise dialing should also not work. > I will take a look at the code of pppd, whether it tries to access the > hardware directly (I don't believe that) or where the problem could come > from. > > Bjorn can you still check what IO ports your modem used when it was > still working, and what are the addresses now? > > Regards, > > Joern > >
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