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Re: cannot open modem device - Help!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Curtis)
Thu Oct 22 18:32:14 1998
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 18:25:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ray Curtis <ray@ray.clark.net>
To: josri@earthlink.net
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>>>>> "j" == josri <josri@earthlink.net> writes:
j> In ezppp there is a button which will toggle between "connect" and
j> "disconnect". When the connection is up the ezppp should show
j> "disconnect" on the button. But when I again started the xwindows, I
j> found the button on ezppp as "connect" that means it has disconnected.
j> So I tried "ps aux|grep pppd" and I found that the pppd is running. Then
j> I killed the pppd with the "kill" command and when I again started the
j> ezppp and clicked the "connect" button I got the error saying "cannot
j> open modem device".
Since I am not a GUI person I have never played with Ezppp, however
if the error message is anywhere at all right, I would check out the
permissions on your driver, i.e.:
/dev/ttySX
/dev/cuaX
Ensure that the user can use them with something like:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 4, 64 May 5 16:32 ttyS0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root uucp 5, 64 Oct 22 17:36 cua0
This should be whatever device /dev/modem is pointing to, then as
root do a chmod 666 /dev/ttyS0 or whatever device.
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Ray Curtis Unix Programmer/Consultant Curtis Consulting
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