kudzu and internal modem

[Dan Burcaw]

To keep laptops from draining too much battery, the Linux kernel
turns off things like the firewire controller and modem chips
until such devices are actually used.  This makes it hard to auto-detect
like in the case of kudzu. So, what you're seeing is merely a timing
issue whereby sometimes the modem is not detected because its not
powered on.  I've tried to make detection more reliable, but as you've
seen, often its not.  I'm working to improve this.  Bottom line: don't
worry too much about the message. As you have noted, you can still use
the modem.

Regards,
Dan

On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 03:29, R. Hirschfeld wrote:
> I recently installed YDL 3.0 and every time I booted, kudzu would
> complain that the 'Generic Serial Modem' was removed from the system
> and ask me what to do.  I got tired of specifying 'do nothing' each
> time and eventually told kudzu to keep the configuration, since I do
> have an internal modem.  Was this the correct thing to do?  An effect
> of this was that a line in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf for the modem was
> changed from 'detached: 0' to 'detached: 1'.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ray
> 
> P.S.  I am able to talk to the modem using minicom, although I had to
> reconfigure minicom to use /dev/ttyS2 instead of /dev/ttyS1.
> 
> P.P.S.  I speculate that kudzu didn't see the modem because it runs in
> 'safe' mode at boot time and doesn't probe the serial ports, but I
> don't know enough about its workings to be sure.  The Apple System
> Profiler also has some trouble identifying the modem, so the problem
> might lie with the modem itself.
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