Re:It's never easy, is it?

[cjgidman@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

> >So, I switch IRQ's.  That fixed the mouse lock up.  Only now, I haven't been
> >able to establish a connection fast or stable enough to download the
> >fetchmail rpm (what is it, 61K?) let alone a 13MB tar ball!  It has been
> >suggested that my telephone line is to blame.  I wonder if switching the IRQ
> >created other conflicts.
> >My Current setup is cua4, IRQ4.  My modem only appears to allow IRQs 3 & 4 on
> >cua4.
> 
> 
> Don't you just love crappy PC hardware sometimes.

Yes, less and less.

> When you switched  IRQ's
> did you move the modem or the mouse to a diffrent IRQ.  COM1=irq4 and
> COM2=irq3 in case you didn't know.

I didn't know this.  I moved the modem.  The modem was on cua4, IRQ3.  I moved it to cua4, IRQ4.  (Note, I see a conflict here, considering your above statement.)


> When you boot what serial ports does
> Linux find. (dmesg | grep tty).

Okay, I did this once and saw 3 tty statements using interrupts 2 and 3.  I didn't know what this meant.  I can do it again tonight and see what it says now that I've swapped the modem around.  I'll let you know.

>  Also take a look at "cat /proc/interrupts"
> to see what irq's linux thinks is assigned to what.  

Will do, thanks.

> You may have to use the
> setserial utility to slide the irq assignments arround.~

Will "man setserial" tell me much or should I look elsewhere?

> So setting up ppp wasn't hard?  What method did you use?

Well, it was easy, because Bob Brown walked me through it before I ever dialed up the ISP.  I guess I left that part out in the first message.  Sorry Bob.  I used the graphical network configuration utility that's on the control panel in X-windows.  It probably wouldn't have been too much trouble without Bob's help, if I had known what to do.  It was pretty straight forward.

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