From: Niels Stenhoj
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 18:12:14 +0100
Message-Id: <00112618121400.02491@linux>
Subject: Re: [SLE] ISDN help (part 2)
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Greg Farrell wrote:
| Hi,
| can anyone help me get my isdn to work under SuSe 7.0?
| its detected by yast2 at install, and allegedly configured. But then when
| it tries to load in the modules it hangs the entire machine. Which isnt
| something I've seen under linux often before. I cannt get another shell,
| reboot, kill it. Anything. Plus seeing as it thinks it should be up it
| tries to start it every reboot afterwards so I've had to reinstall
| compeltely just to try a new tactic.
| It is an Asus-com P-IN100-ST-D, which was autodetected (and i'vetried
| configuring it manually from yast1). it is able to load slhc.o, isdn.o but
| when it tries to load HiSax.o thats when my pc dies.
| It tries with the arguments type=35 (asuscom I'm guessing) protocol=2
| (euro isdn) id=HiSax. I've also tried it without arguments but that causes
| a fatal crash too. The card does work under windows, but I like to do
| everything cept play games in linux, but I miss my net connect. I might
| have to stick my old modem back in. Any helpful suggestions?
| Greg
| PS I've read the how-tos, faq, sdb, and I've even tried drivers fro
| asuscom themselves (just a version of hisax theycompiled)
I wish to add a story. Two weeks ago a friend of mine who is using 7.0 as well
phoned me and he told me that he got an ISDN adapter like mine, but he
couldn't make 7.0 recognize it. He asked me would I test it on my machine
before complaining to his vendor. I accepted, and we tried, and it worked.
Then of course he asked me a lot of question about my hardware history, and
I came to thinking about some instances of the CMOS having locked up.
The symptoms are inability to alocate irq's etc, depite PNP features.
When I ran a dual boot setup with Windoze as the other OS, the BIOS simply
locked up now and then, leaving no alternative than to clearing it. Usually
you'll find a pair of pins on the motherboard for that purpose. If not,
switch off the power at the wall switch and remove the battery and insert a
coin instead. Switch on the power and start the machine. Press DEL to enter
the Bios menu. If the date has been reset to 'factory standard', you are done.
Insert the battery again and adjust the parameters.
He followed the advice and made a clean install witout any problems with his
hardware. - And, of course, the AsusCOM P-IN100-ST-D worked perfectly!
If you you are running WindBlows on the same machine, as Linux, it might be
an idea to consider if it is that worth.
Cheers,
Niels
