tempestuous
  
 
  
 
 
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Posted: Nov. 05 2004,02:06 | 
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This is advice, not a question.  I had a problem with my Sony notebook's internal modem not working on occasions, until I discovered that whenever a PCMCIA card was in place, it was allocated irq 3, which is the required irq for my modem (/dev/ttyS1). The fix is simple. In /etc/pcmcia/config.opts   uncomment the line #exclude irq 3 . You might want to add some lines excluding other irq's as well if those irq's are required by devices which won't share their irq.  Use cat /proc/interrupts and dmesg to diagnose. I hope this helps others. Craig S 
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