> It sees something it thinks might be a modem, and has succeeded in
> making a lock file for it. It is not all that easy for a program to
> tell if there is really anything there. If there really is a modem
> there, it should echo the init string, a bunch of letters and special
> characters starting AT, and respond OK on the next line. setserial is a
> better way of looking for a serial device in the first place, but
> minicom is useful to tell if it is a modem. I wish you had saved /etc
> from RH 4.2 :-). I bet it would have fit on a single floppy as a
> tar.gz.
I have 4.2 on disk. I tried re-installing it but the boot disk wouldn't
take. Is there a way to copy /etc/ to my disk now. I still haven't saved
anything personal on my linux box. So if I lose data it won't matter.
(except for the stuff I've done as per linux-newbie).
Sorry I haven't even mounted a cd on this system yet.
>
>
> On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, John Starkey wrote:
>
> > I just opened minicom and it came up with an "initializing modem"
> > message.
> >
> > Does that mean it sees it or that it's looking for it????
> >
> >
> Minicom will try to initialize a modem at an address that has no IO
> device connected to it. It won't succeed, but it'll try.
> cu -l will return "permission denied" and "line in use" in this case.
> Sorry, I think I may have guessed wrong a few times in this fiasco.
>
> Lawson
>
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