by O happy day!
I am posting this message via RH 5.0. I got connected finally so my
Windoze95 disk has about a half hour to live as I was forced to rely on
M$ for internet services. If you are having trouble don't give up,
Linux is worth the effort. Between www.deja-news.com and
www.redhat.com there is enough information to solve any problem, but you
might have to dig deep.
My problem: I hate to admit this, but I spent three months bucking a
misconfigured IRQ. The first errors I received were of the lcp timeout
and 8 bit not clean which appear to be pretty generic judging by the
number of postings with these errors. By wrestling with the various
scripts I was able to produce an error from pppd that was something like
ioctl (IDYGFB): Invalid operator. Further script abuse caused a modem
hangup and NO CARRIER. The telling point was the general slowness
during login observable through seyon, minicom, ezppp, etc. A posting I
read in RedHat's ppp-list to this effect triggered the memory that I had
set my modem in Windoze to a non default IRQ in order to dodge some
other conflict (mouse). Part of the reason I never considered a
resource conflict is that everything appeared to work to an extent.
Coming from a M$ background, things work or they do not (usually not and
you guess why). It is rarely the case that hardware will sort of work.
Solution: If this sounds like your problem, you need to know what your
modems IRQ is set at. If you are a W95 user and have a working
configuration look under the resources of the COM port the modem is
installed on. In Linux you can find out the IRQ by:
/sbin/setserial -a /dev/ttySx #where x=cau
number (COM-1)
If you need to change it use:
/sbin/setserial -b /dev/ttySx IRQ X #where x=cau & X=IRQ
To have it autoconfig IRQ on boot put the later line in a file called:
/etc/rc.d/rc.serial
Note: This was an IRQ misconfiguration not an IRQ conflict. An IRQ
conflict may behave much differently than this. I really don't know.
Hey Linux guru's: If I'm wrong about any of the above please call me on
it. I'm a newbie and I wouldn't want to lead anyone astray.
Proposition: Does this exist or would anyone be interesting in starting
a web site that consisted of a database of problems and their
solutions. Sifting through all the misleading postings is a little
tiresome.
---Chad
Linux rocks my box!!!