SurfSquirrel serial and 2.4.9 kernel

[Oliver R. <ol...@fu...>]

Is anybody managing to use the SurfSquirrel serial port with the 2.4.9
kernel?  Looks like the whippet module is built into that kernel, so
I'm a bit baffled at why it's not working.  When I try to access
/dev/ttyS1, I just get some error message (not a serial device or
something like that), but if I reboot with the 2.2.10 kernel (the one
that was on the Amiga Active CD) I can access /dev/ttyS1 and lights on
my modem flicker accordingly (although I guess the driver is broken
in that version because serial communication gets messed up, and so is
unusable).

To cut a long story short, 2.4.9 was the most recent kernel that I
could find that will actually boot on my system - I was hoping the
SurfSquirrel support was fixed in that version, but alas I can't
access it at all now :(  I also noticed some errors about missing
pcmcia modules from /lib/modules/2.4.9/pcmcia (dir is empty here)
when booting.  Is there something I need to do to get /dev/ttyS1 to
work?

BTW, I'm using a fresh 2.2r6 install from the Debian CDs (gave up on
trying to get the Amiga Active version working adequately :)

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