The modem port is what i want to use, for one it just makes more sence to me, and two i had seen that the printer port might be limited to 300baud though it is talking to the sun at 9600 fine so far. The problem is that ZTerm reports that the modem port is busy (ERROR: -98 unable to open I/o port) but it accepts the printer port just fine. But i cant see anything that would be using or trying to use the modem port.
It works on the printer port, so its more along the lines of finding out what exactly is going on on my little machine. >
Just what comes to a non-networker's mind: there are some weird programs that can block the modem port and are sometimes hard to identify. In my case (PowerBook 100, sorry) it was fax receiving software that had been loaded at startup (system extension) and kept the port busy by polling, I guess, so that the modem could not use it for dialing out. Disabling fax software did the trick. Can't say if it is of any importance in your case as the other port can be opened, as you say.
HTH, OM --
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