Re: Minicom problem
Bobby Dunlap wrote:
I don't really know if I am communicating with anyone or not, but here
goes....
I am using Red Hat 8, start minicom, and immediately after the message
"initializing modem" appears, the cursor hangs up, will not accept any
keyboard input and never recieve the "OK" prompt to test the dialing
function in the modem. The modem is ESS (Creative) and was recognized
and configured by KUDZU at boot up after installation. It has been
assigned to /dev/ttyS1, IRQ 3. Can anyone help? As you can tell by
my question, I am a beginner and woulld really like to switch to LINUX
from Windows, but must get online. Somebody please help!
Since you're asking a Redhat question of users who don't use Redhat, you
may not get much help.
The first thing I suspect is that the modem is a so-called "win-modem"
(aka softmodem, host-based modem, etc), but the serial port and IRQ
assigned rather negate that idea, so that's probably not the issue.
The next idea that comes to mind is that you don't have sufficient
rights to the modem device. In Debian, you'd add your user to the
dialout (and maybe dip) group(s). You can test this by running minicom
as root (not generally a great idea, but I'm assuming you're not in a
high-security-needed-don't-do-stupid-things spot). You can also do an
"ls -l /dev/ttyS1" to see what the permissions are on the serial port.
Another possibility is an IRQ conflict. Is there anything else on this
serial port (a mouse? another modem? a tablet device? a Palm PDA? etc)?.
--
Kent
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