PCI modem, request-route

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Hi,

On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 04:36:42PM +0100, Verwalter Dr.Betz wrote:
> Not exactly an mgetty problem, so forgive me if I ask you
> about 2 modem problems (under Linux):
> 
> 1) I can't find any info about how to adress an internal
> ELSA PCI modem. I can see the device in /proc/pci, but none
> of the ttyS* seems to be right ...

You need a very recent serial driver, not in the main kernel source yet -
I lost the URL, but if you search through the archives of the linux kernel
mailing list, looking for "T'so", "PCI" and "serial", you should find
something.  Whether it works depends on your card...

> 2) I use dial-on-demand via kerneld and /sbin/request-route
> (as I had interference problems, when using diald together with
> dial-in via mgetty). For some days now (after a kernel rebuild)
> <something> is dialing every hour or so. Nothing in crontab or
> <ps aux> or <messages>. How would you find out the program responsible
> for the dialouts?

Look with "tcpdump" on the interface (ppp0?) what's going out.

gert
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