In article <5_%Mg.74$vJ2.22@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com>, scott@slp53.sl.home
says...
>
>ice@eskimo.com (Greg Toth) writes:
>>I am attempting to upgrade from Fedora 2 to Fedora 4. After doing the update,
I
>>can no longer use the serial port and external modem. When I originally
>>installed Fedora 2 I had the same problem. Then I took the computer back to
>>where I bought it from. The support people got the serial port (and modem)
to
>>work and told me the problem was that Fedora did not work with the chip set
>>used in the computer (VIA K8M800 + VT8237R).
>
>The support people are full of it. The VT8237R (via the VT1211 LPC) provides
>standard 16C550 UARTs, which have been supported by the linux kernel, well,
>since forever.
>
>Check your bios settings for the serial ports, make sure it has COMA at
>0x3F8 and COMB at 0x2f8.
>
>Check your /var/log/messages file after reboot for similar to the following
lines:
>
>/var/log/messages:Aug 22 08:30:38 systema kernel: Serial: 8250/16550 driver
$Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
>/var/log/messages:Aug 22 08:30:38 systema kernel: serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O
0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
>/var/log/messages:Aug 22 08:30:38 systema kernel: serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O
0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
>
>
>scott



The bios settings matched and the messages described above were in the
/var/log/messages file. However, when I tried to activate the connection I got
a "Failed to activate with error 2" message and the messages file showed the
following message:

ifup=ppd: ppd started for Eskimo on /dev/modem at 57600
pppd[2713] unrecognized option '/dev/moPdem'





What does this mean?