Re: Problem Accessing Phone Modem

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:47:02 +0200, David Baron wrote:

> On a Sid system after upgrading to a newer MB, neither minicom nor my
> speakerphone plasma applet can access my modem (older analog Rockwell
> chip), tried both my old ISA and a newer PCI card, same result.
> 
> I am letting BIOS setup use the default or normal options for the serial
> ports. There are two on board.
> 
> Here are the setserial infos.
> 
> ~$ setserial /dev/ttyS0
> /dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4 
> ~$ setserial /dev/ttyS1
> /dev/ttyS1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3 
> ~$ setserial /dev/ttyS2
> /dev/ttyS2, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 12 
> ~$ setserial /dev/ttyS3
> /dev/ttyS3, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3
> 
> lshal show the modem on ttyS2 with IRQ 12!

First to check is dmesg (put here the output):

dmesg | grep -i tty

> I am in the "dialout" group assigned by udev to these nodes.
> 
> How might I solve this?

By finding out where is your system seeing your serial ports and then 
telling the involved applications to use it instead the old one.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón