Modem/Printer port being used

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From: Ali Janah
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 00:00

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Hi !

I've got a friend who has an old PowerBook 520 with a StyleWriter II. He
has a built-in modem (PowerPort 500) in it as well.This thing is running
PPP on System 7.1.1. But now he is connected to the ethernet and wants to
connect his printer to the powerbook. But whenever, I tried to configure
his printer to the printer port, I can get the printer to work. The
displayed messages indicated that "the modem port is being used by another
application". Now noticing that there's only one port serving as both
printer/modem port, I figured that it must be the modem which must be
conflicting with the printer port. So, i disable PPP and the PowerPort 500
control panel and extenstion and restarted the machine.

The problem still persists indicating that the port is being used by an
application. I couldn't figure out what other apps is using his modem
port. Could anybody help me out with this problem. Thank you in advance.

-- 
Ali Janah Abdullah
Software Engineering
Edith Cowan University

E-Mail = aabdulla@student.ecu.edu.au

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From: aabdulla@student.ecu.edu.au (Ali Janah)
Subject: Modem/Printer port being used
Date: 1999/03/13
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