Niall stated the following on Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 01:27:33AM +0000 :
> I've just installed SuSE 6.3 on a ox which works OK, including using kppp
> to SurfNoLimits. However, I want to use my own kernel rather than SuSE's
> default modular one. I'm not exactly a kernel newbie, but this one has me
> stumped. Having built the kernel, all is good except the modem. Kppp
> claims it's busy, and minicom gets no response from it - it's as if it
> wasn't there. The modem's at 0x3E8, IRQ 4 and I've nothing attached to the
> serial port at 3F8 so the IRQ shouldn't be a problem - in fact it's
> definitely not as the same box running Mandrake 5.3 with kernel 2.2.10 or
> SuSE 6.3 with the default kernel or Windoze quite happily uses the modem.
> So, what can I have buggered up in the kernel config. to have zapped my
> modem ?
what ouput does the kernel produce on startup, dmesg should be
able to output the last batch of boot messages.
Did you forget to build in serial support into the kernel?
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