[LI] RHL 6.1 and PCMCIA

[Atul Chitnis <achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

All:

Some (me included) will find that their PCMCIA modems mysteriously stop
functioning under RHL 6.1, while the Ethernet part on the same card may 
work find.

The problem is not with PCMCIA, but with the hardware detection utility
(kudzu) that RHL 6.1 introduced.

The fix is simple - edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/kudzu and change

        /usr/sbin/kudzu -t 30
to
        /usr/sbin/kudzu -t 30 -s

This stops kudzu from initializing and "freezing" the serial port configs.

The same fix also takes care of some machines that keep finding/losing
their serial port mouse (usually on /dev/ttyS1 - COM2 for DOSsies).

Atul

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