Minicom problem

['Georgina']

Hi

Have you looked in your devices '/dev' directory to see if you have more
than the standard 0 -3 or in DOS terms com 1 - 4 ports?  I think that
you have to have to select advanced com ports or something in the kernel
to use com 5 or ttyS4 as your modem appears to being attempting to do.
The old way was to put the modem on com3 ttyS2 and set it to use irq 5
maybe that's an option.  Either way, I'm sure someone here will step in
and help.


Gena



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>That is how I was accessing minicom, as root.
>~Ann
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
>To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 6:31 PM
>Subject: Re: Minicom problem
>
>
>| Have you tried accessing minicom as root? Try with the following
>| switch:
>|
>| minicom -s
>|
>| This should take you to a setup screen.
>|
>| Once out of the setup screen, an ath should return 'ok'
>|
>| Exit minicom with Ctrl-a q enter
>|
>| On Tue, 28 May 2002, Ann wrote:
>|
>| > Hi folks,
>| >
>| > Well, my Linux saga continues. :) I finally got a working 2.4.18 kernel
>to
>| > work with Zipspeak8.0. My modem is detected on the correct port, with
>the
>| > correct IRq and everything, but when I try and open minicom, I get the
>| > following message. (Note: This is not a type O)
>| >
>| > : No such file or directorytyS4
>| >
>| > I think Gregory and I could use some brainstorming on this one, folks.
>There
>| > is a file called /dev/ttyS4, so I don't know why Minicom refuses to find
>it.
>| > ~Ann
>| >
>| >
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