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Re: problems with ttyS1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Lalor)
Mon Nov 16 12:27:32 1998
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:24:53 -0500 (EST)
From: Brian Lalor <blalor@hcirisc.cs.binghamton.edu>
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On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Brian Lalor wrote:
> I'm trying to put a modem on a box running RH5.1. Just trying to get
> minicom to work, I get
> minicom: cannot open /dev/ttyS1: Device or resource busy
>
> Messages from dmesg show
> Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
> tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
>
> The serial mouse on cua0 works fine and I've got gpm running. Does anyone
> have any ideas? I tried playing with setserial a bit, but that didn't
> seem to have any effect. There is currently a modem on ttyS1.
I realized that I need to provide more info. :) This is an external
modem. According to the bios config, the information the motherboard
knows about is the same as the dmesg output above. It *may* be a
setserial-type of problem, but this is a USR Faxmodem Pro external unit.
Thanks again,
B
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