On Sunday 15 September 2002 11:51 pm, nate wrote: > can you show the output of 'id -a' ? peter@debian:~$ id -a uid=1000(peter) gid=1000(peter) groups=1000(peter),6(disk),20(dialout),24(cdrom),29(audio),30(dip),44(video) peter@debian:~$ > also the output of 'ls -l /dev/ttyS0' ? peter@debian:~$ ls -l /dev/ttys0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 3, 48 Mar 14 2002 /dev/ttys0 peter@debian:~$ Does this help solve the problem??? Peter Christensen