APM and PCMCIA issue?

Seth M. Landsman (seth@job.cs.brandeis.edu)
Sat, 12 Sep 1998 13:15:10 -0400


Greets,
I think I've found a slight issue with PCMCIA modems and APM. I'm
short on details, as I don't know how to persue this, and was wondering if
anyone has seen similar behavior.

So the hardware in question is a gateway 2300LS with 64M of RAM, a
PCMCIA modem (using self-compiled pcmcia utilities 3.05 (or whatever the
latest is), 2.0.35 kernel with APM in the kernel and an updated debian
slink system.
The problem is that my PCMCIA script works 100% when I boot up my
system. However, after suspending my system, the PPP script freezes upon
trying to write to /dev/modem. After a reasonable time, /usr/sbin/chat
returns an error that it cannot write to the device. There are no
messages in any log file that look relevant. The symlink still exists.
Ejecting the cards, mucking with cardctl, etc don't do anything useful.
The behavior is not replicatable under windows95, PPP works fine
after a suspend.
rebooting or resetting the machines restores PPP to working order.

Has anyone seen this happen or can give me pointers on how to
solve this or provide more useful information so this can be solved?

-Seth

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