Re: [newbie] "sorry,modem is busy"

[David van Balen]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, George Houdek-Viskovska wrote:

> Hi everyone !!
> I have problem with Kppp and minicom .
> I click on Connection and LINUX show me window with : "Sorry,modem is busy" but my 
>modem is not busy ???Line, modem is OK but for Kppp and minicom is modem busy .
> Please help me .   George 
> 


I've heard of that happening when people try to use isa PnP modems. It can
usually be solved by setting the COM port and IRQ manually (using dip
switches) instead trying to detect it automatically.

DvB