[ILUG] modem permissions

[Brendan Halpin]

Gavin McCullagh <ilug_gmc at fiachra.ucd.ie> writes:

> On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Brendan Halpin wrote:
> 
> > [brendan at ballingoola brendan]$ wvdial
> > --> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.41
> > --> Cannot open /dev/ttyS1: Device or resource busy
> 
> [brendan at ballingoola brendan]$ lsof |grep ttyS1 
> 
> should tell you what's got holding the device.

I had tried that, and nothing shows up. 

Michael Armbrecht <marmbrecht at eircom.net> writes:

> 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...

I will, when I'm back at the other end of that noisy multiplexed
phone line, but I'm pretty sure /dev/ttyS1 is explicitly specified
in the wvdial.conf file.

Brendan
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