Mike Abney wrote:
>
> I'm having two problems that may or may not be related. Both my modem
> and my Zip drive are completely failing to work. (They both worked
> under RH 5.2 and still work under Win '95.) When trying to use the
> modem I get no response from minicom, and KPPP tells me that the "modem
> is busy". When trying 'modprobe ppa', I'm told that the parallel port
Check /var/lock to see if there's a LCK..modem or LCK..ttyS0 in that
directory. It could cause the "modem busy" message you're seeing.
> is reporting no SCSI devices and/or that the "device or resource is
> busy". First things first, I really want the modem to work and then I
> can deal with the Zip drive. Therefore...
>
> I've checked everything I can think of. A 'setserial -g /dev/ttyS0'
> shows that it is configured correctly (IRQ and I/O addresses are the
> same as in Win' 95). I've also checked /proc/interrupts and the IRQ is
> not listed as being used elsewhere.
>
> Is this something that can be fixed by getting the new initscripts?
> (I've already updated the kernel packages, but since the initscripts
> update wasn't in that same ftp directory I wasn't sure at first how
> official it was.) If so, I've got that RPM and will install it
> tonight. I just wanted to check here first to see if anyone had any
> other ideas.
Doubt that the initscripts package will fix either of the problems, but
seeing that the initscript update fixes the reboot problem, I'd really
recommend you do the update.
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Steve Philp
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