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From: Marvin Stodolsky <stodolsk@rcn.com>
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Subject: Crippling BIOSes
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Folks,
        Given Jacques report below, it would be good to set up a
diagnostic for
BIOS which have such Microsoft/Other choices.  Mine does not.
For those of you who have such BIOSes, please 
1) Do  boots under both choices
2) Under microsoft do:
  dmesg > ms.txt
3) Under other
   dmesg > other.txt
4) diff ms.txt other.txt
and report the differences to the List with the name of the BIOS.
If would clearly be desirable to equip future Linux kernels/software to
give a
warning about the crippling microsoft option, which may hamper other PCI
harware under Linux as well.

MarvS   
============
> Jacques Goldberg wrote:
> 
>  Well, my very sincere thanks to all of you. It works.
> 
> DETAILS:
> I purchased a Gateway Solo 2550 in September, comes with ActionTec PCI 56k
> modem (Lucent chip vendor 11c1, device 448).
> I tried the 568 ltmodem: device or resource busy,could not guess why.
> cat /pro/pci would show no interrupt
> Then ltmodem 578  was made available: same problem.
> But then the PnP issue at boot came again last week.
> I had tried several times to discover the option in my BIOS setup.
> This morning I found: in the "advanced" page there is an "Operating
> System" option, to be set to "the most frequently used OS". I had left it
> as Win98/2000 (as I received the machine).
> I just selected OTHER.
> Lo and behold, ltmodem.o loads without a flaw, I then had a short dumb
> terminal session with minicom, and am now connected at my first attempt
> with ppp, having already used X11, ssh, and Netscape.
> 
> So, again my deepest thanks to all of you on this list, and the bottom
> line for newcomers:
> 
>  IF (Device.or.resource busy) CHECK YOUR BIOS.
> 
> By the way I am running RH-6.1, kernel 2.2.12-20 (CERN "official" Linux
> distribution). They are on vacations now, I cannot check at this time if
> their version of ppp is "generic" or reworked.
> 
>                                 Jacques J. Goldberg
>                                 Jacques.Goldberg@cern.ch
>                                 >>>> Currently at TECHNION <<<<
>                                 PHONE: Technion=+(972)(0)(4)829.36.63
>                                            CERN=+(41)(22)767.84.72