Re: /dev/ttyS1 already in use
Quoting Robert King (king@mailbox.gu.edu.au):
> Hi,
> I'm having trouble getting my serial line to work on a 486 at home. It
> has a working slackware install on one disk and I'm endeavouring to
> install hamm on a new disk. Whenever I try anything with ttyS1, I'm told
> its already in use. How do I work out what's causing this?
> I've checked that it is the modem and not the mouse, and the mouse works
> OK (tested using gpm, I don't have X up and running either).
Difficult to know what you mean by "try anything", or what packages
you've installed to use it. In the first instance, fuser /dev/ttyS1
will tell you the PID of any process using it. Secondly, check it's
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 65 Mar 3 17:20 /dev/ttyS1
and that you're in dialout (type groups). Then try it out with
minicom and see if you can dial.
Cheers,
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