[wplug] /dev/ttyS0 busy

J Aaron Farr jaaron_farr at hotmail.com
Thu Apr 4 13:35:35 EST 2002


My bad.

Apparently the COM port IS having issues in Windows98.  So maybe it is a 
hardware thing for the serial port.  I have a winmodem on this laptop as 
well and I've never tried to configure it on linux, maybe now's the time.

Thanks again.
jaaron

>From: "J Aaron Farr" <jaaron_farr at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
>To: wplug at wplug.org
>Subject: Re: [wplug] /dev/ttyS0 busy
>Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 11:54:41 -0500
>
>
>>From: Henry Umansky <hmust2+ at pitt.edu>
>>Modem is broken, or you need see if there is an updated module for your
>>modem.
>>
>
>That seems highly unlikely since (1) it's new and had been working the day
>before and (2) it works fine with win98.  The modem is an external modem
>connected over the serial port (COM1 in DOS).
>
>The problem doesn't seem to be the modem as much as it is something about
>the serial port in Linux.
>
>jaaron
>
>
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