Dear all,

Until the installation of FC6 this morning, I have used modem in FC5
without any problem. But in FC6, the modem does not respond at
all. Query modem from kppp shows modem detection (even when it is
turned off!!!), but modem query result remains empty. That made me
suspect that ttyS0 is pointing to something else. As is evidenced by
the output from dmesg,

Xen virtual console successfully installed as ttyS0


I have tried not starting the xend daemon at boot time, but that did
not work. Could any kind soul tell me how can I make my modem work.

It is an external modem and has given me service for several years
(starting with RH6) without any problem.

Thanks in advance.

"Masroor" <mmasroorali@cse.buet.ac.bd> writes:

>Dear all,

>Until the installation of FC6 this morning, I have used modem in FC5
>without any problem. But in FC6, the modem does not respond at
>all. Query modem from kppp shows modem detection (even when it is
>turned off!!!), but modem query result remains empty. That made me
>suspect that ttyS0 is pointing to something else. As is evidenced by
>the output from dmesg,

>Xen virtual console successfully installed as ttyS0


>I have tried not starting the xend daemon at boot time, but that did
>not work. Could any kind soul tell me how can I make my modem work.

What is xen? Why are you starting it at all?


>It is an external modem and has given me service for several years
>(starting with RH6) without any problem.

>Thanks in advance.

On Mar 7, 9:59 pm, Unruh <unruh-s...@physics.ubc.ca> wrote:
> "Masroor" <mmasroor...@cse.buet.ac.bd> writes:
> >Dear all,
> >Until the installation of FC6 this morning, I have used modem in FC5
> >without any problem. But in FC6, the modem does not respond at
> >all. Query modem from kppp shows modem detection (even when it is
> >turned off!!!), but modem query result remains empty. That made me
> >suspect that ttyS0 is pointing to something else. As is evidenced by
> >the output from dmesg,
> >Xen virtual console successfully installed as ttyS0
> >I have tried not starting the xend daemon at boot time, but that did
> >not work. Could any kind soul tell me how can I make my modem work.
>
> What is xen? Why are you starting it at all?
>
>
>
> >It is an external modem and has given me service for several years
> >(starting with RH6) without any problem.
> >Thanks in advance.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

I did not. I installed and started using FC6 in the same way I have
installed RH4-FC5. And now I am stuck with something which I had no
intention of starting or allocating the serial port at all.

On 7 Mar 2007 08:10:55 -0800, Masroor
<mmasroorali@cse.buet.ac.bd> wrote:
>
>
> On Mar 7, 9:59 pm, Unruh <unruh-s...@physics.ubc.ca> wrote:
>>
>> What is xen? Why are you starting it at all?
>>
>>
>>
>> >It is an external modem and has given me service for several years
>> >(starting with RH6) without any problem.
>> >Thanks in advance.- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> I did not. I installed and started using FC6 in the same way I have
> installed RH4-FC5. And now I am stuck with something which I had no
> intention of starting or allocating the serial port at all.
>
I don't have FC6, but try "yum remove xen", or look in /etc for a xen
configuration file that might allow xen to use a different ttyS* device
or none.


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On Mar 8, 2:59 am, Bill Marcum <marcumb...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On 7 Mar 2007 08:10:55 -0800, Masroor
>
>
>
> <mmasroor...@cse.buet.ac.bd> wrote:
>
> > On Mar 7, 9:59 pm, Unruh <unruh-s...@physics.ubc.ca> wrote:
>
> >> What is xen? Why are you starting it at all?
>
> >> >It is an external modem and has given me service for several years
> >> >(starting with RH6) without any problem.
> >> >Thanks in advance.- Hide quoted text -
>
> >> - Show quoted text -
>
> > I did not. I installed and started using FC6 in the same way I have
> > installed RH4-FC5. And now I am stuck with something which I had no
> > intention of starting or allocating the serial port at all.
>
> I don't have FC6, but try "yum remove xen", or look in /etc for a xen
> configuration file that might allow xen to use a different ttyS* device
> or none.
>
> --
> The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

It appears that xen comes from kernel. Putting xencons=off in grub
prevented xen from grabbing ttyS0, but still my modem remains
undected. kppp simply says unable to detect modem (as well as minicom).

In article <1173316779.821476.160340@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups .com>,
Masroor wrote...
>It appears that xen comes from kernel. Putting xencons=off in grub
>prevented xen from grabbing ttyS0, but still my modem remains
>undected. kppp simply says unable to detect modem (as well as minicom).
Try installing a non xen kernel and using that instead. If this works,
you can remove the xen kernel safely.

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