Re: Modem under Linux 2.0.0

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From: Graham Daveney
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 00:00

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Scott Buckingham (accolade@sydney.DIALix.oz.au) wrote:
: G'day,
: 	I've just installed Slackware 3.0 a fresh over the top of my
: previous Slackware 2.3 system.  However, when I try to use Minicom or Seyon
: it won't initialise my modem and I get the message:
: 	/dev/modem: device XXXXXXX or busy (I foget what XXXXX is)
: 	I solved the problem before under Slackware 2.3 (the modem is on
: cua0 btw), but that was ages ago and now I forget what I did.  Does 
: anyone have any suggestions

What are the permissions on the file ?

I think that you may need to use chmod so that you can write to the modem
device.

If you have a look in the Serial-HOWTO you will see exactly what permissions
the /dev/cua0 should have.


Thanks
Graham

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From: daveney@altus.speednet.com.au (Graham Daveney)
Subject: Re: Modem under Linux 2.0.0
Date: 1996/10/13
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