[ILUG] modem permissions

[Brendan Halpin]

I've been working around a minor problem with connecting to the
modem on my old home box for a long time, but now I'd like hints
towards a solution. 

It's a RH6.2 box, with a "real" internal modem on /dev/ttyS1b


I can connect as root no problem (apart from the Piece of
Telephonic Shit service, but that's another story) but not as an
ordinary user. 

Obvious stuff like permissions don't seem to be the problem:

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[brendan at ballingoola brendan]$ wvdial
--> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.41
--> Cannot open /dev/ttyS1: Device or resource busy
[brendan at ballingoola brendan]$ ls -l /dev/ttyS1
crwxrwxrwx    1 root     tty        4,  65 Dec 18 20:45 /dev/ttyS1
[brendan at ballingoola brendan]$ groups
brendan tty
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Any ideas?

Brendan
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