[lug] Partitioning and modem problems

[Mike McCallister]

No luck. The options file was actually empty, so the lock wasn't it. I also 
tried to confirm the IRQ per D. Stimits' suggestion.  Both Windows and 
proc/interrupts report that the modem is on IRQ 9 (FWIW proc/interrupts 
identified 9 as a USB-UHCI, with a 0 in the middle column). Lspci -v 
reported the following:

US Robotics: Unknown device 1008 (rev 01) (Prog-if 02)
Subsystem: Unknown device 12b9:baba
Flags: Medium devsel, IRQ9
I/O Ports at dfe0.

I couldn't locate rc.local on my system, but I ran D's command manually 
from the shell, then used KPPD to query the modem again--still "busy."

I am open to other suggestions, although I'm starting to incline towards 
bitching Dell out. The partitioning problem remains. I'm going to follow up 
with Corel on that as well.

Thanks again!

Mike

At 03:22 PM 6/18/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Mike McCallister wrote:
> >
> > The other problem is getting the internal modem to work. ...
> > every time KPPD queries the modem, "Sorry, modem is busy" is the reply.
>
>You should check your pppd options file, probably located at
>/etc/ppp/options, for a lock statement.  kppp applies its own
>device lock which can conflict with pppd.  So, if you have a
>lock statement in pppd options, make sure it's commented out.
>
>Lynn Danielson
>
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