[newbie] Modem

[Murray Strome]

Thanks to some of the recent postings, I was able to figure out that I
can use modemtool to start the setup of my modem, and it looked like it
did things OK. I had already tried to use minicom before.  I did not get
it going yet.  However, now when I try, I get "/dev/modem locked".  How
do I clear that? I have an external GVC 56K modem, and the TR light is
flashing slowly.  I tried turning it off and back on, but that did not
change the locked status.  If I ls -l /dev/modem, this what I get:
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            5 Sep 14 07:52 /dev/modem ->
ttyS1
(the modem is on COM1).

Thanks for any help.
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