On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, John Starkey wrote about, Re: Minicom..... and an idea!!!!!!:
> I have to go to work now. A friend of mine at work put a motherboard in my
> other PC this weekend. He will be loading it with Windows. I am gonna load
> Linux in it. (I still ain't gonna give up). So what I'll do is load RH 4.2
> in there and compare /etc/ folders. If I find anything questionable or if I
> miraculously happen to fix this problem I will let you guys know what it is
> that did it.
Give youself a break, and install redaht 6.1 at least. you WILL find it
more $user_friendly.
> I REALLY appreciate the help I've recieved on this. I've learned a lot
> about Linux already. I hope that I can return the favor.
Stay around, we bite sometimes but our bark is worse than the bite.
>
>
> John
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > 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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