Re: "Modem busy" message
- From: Dances With Crows <danSPANceswithTRAPcrows@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:50:27 -0500
stevewy@xxxxxxxxxxx staggered into the Black Sun and said:
Knoppix 5.1.1. I am trying to use an external modem (Timedia
F560XRSP), and have it plugged into COM1 of my PC. Under Windows XP,
I use a Lucent Winmodem
If you do your distro's equivalent of "emerge ltmodem", probably
something like add the non-Free repository and "apt-get install
ltmodem", you could probably use the Lucent LoseModem from within Linux
as well.
assumed that if I set up the default modem under Knoppix to point to
COM1 (or [ttyS0] as it is in Linux), this would bypass the Winmodem
and use the external hardware one. No luck.
What was the exact error message? What, exactly, did you try? Are you
using a PPP frontend (like kppp) to fiddle with the modem? Which
frontend are you using?
Often, /dev/ttyS[0-3] are owned by root:uucp (or something like that)
and chmodded 660. This means that users must be in group uucp to be
able to do anything to the serial ports. For a while, they recommended
that you install kppp as SUID root to avoid those permissions problems.
I don't know for sure; I have real bandwidth at home and work so it's
been years since I had to deal with modems.
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