[ILUG] modem permissions

[Michael Armbrecht]

Am Mittwoch, 18. Dezember 2002 22:08 schrieb Brendan Halpin:

> Obvious stuff like permissions don't seem to be the problem:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> [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
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Any ideas?

Are you sure wvdial connects directly to that device? It probably connects to 
/dev/modem (which might be a link to ttyS1), but check out those permissions, 
too...

Mick

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