[95994] in RedHat Linux List
Re: cannot open modem device - Help!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (josri)
Thu Oct 22 19:39:21 1998
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 16:36:41 -0700
From: josri <josri@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: josri@earthlink.net
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Hi
Thanks for your reply.
> Is pppd still running?
No. I killed pppd with "kill -9 pid"
> Try looking in /var/lock for a lock file on the
> modem (or the device linked to by /dev/modem).
I looked there. But I find only these files news, samba, subsys and not modem
> Also try "fuser
> /dev/modem" to see if another process has it open. If so, fuser will
> report it's PID.
It doesn't show any pid. I tried rebooting the machine and also switching off
the modem and switching on back.
Modem works fine on windows.
Any other thoughts?
Thanks
jo
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