Re: interesting problem........

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> ok...... i recently did some major hardware upgrading... (new ram mobo
> cpu.. case... vid card....) and...... my modem worked before.... and
> now..... i get messages like.. for example.. from kppp..... sorry, the
> modem is busy......... but nothing is using it....... and it still works
> in windows........ it's a boca internal plug and pray 33.6 .....  and it
> worked perfectly before..... it's on com 2 irq 3 (all the time... it
> doesn't move around) ........ any suggestions would be helpful......
> well..... i guess thats about all there is to say....     i'll mess with
> it a bit more.... but...... so far it hasn't been cooperating..........
> i've already done the usual make sure it's bios that is telling plug at
> play devices where to go and not leaving it up to the OS.....  umm
> ok...... many thanks in advance.....

Did you turn OFF the on-board COM2 port in the BIOS?

And make sure there is not a COM4 which could be an IRQ conflict.
(do NOT set the on-board COM ports to "auto", shut them off if 
they are not being used -- and shut the second com port off anyway, 
or give it a different IRQ like 5)

BTW, have you tried your new video card with XFree86 3.3.3 yet?
If so, how well does it work?

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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