[wplug] Serial Port Access in Red Hat 8

[William Powell]

Redhat 2.4.18.14 running on a 133 P1 Compaq laptop.

I am trying to access some serial data coming into the first serial 
port(ttyS0?) using minicom.  When I run minicom as either root or a 
normal user I get the following error:

minicom: cannot open /dev/ttys0: Input/output error

The ls -l for /dev/ttys0 are as follows:
crw-rw-rw-    1 root    tty    3,    48    Aug 30 2002     /dev/ttys0

I added my username to the tty group, but that didn't have any effect. 

Is this caused by a lockdown by some security tool that I haven't 
detected yet?


I can capture this serial data fine using Win98 on com1.


Bill