I don't want to confuse things - but would you try this to show if anything is sitting on ttyS0 (it might be something you ran earlier.
>From a terminal screen type this and enter.. sudo ps -aux | grep ttyS0 there should be a list - perhaps copy and paste that into a message (ignore the 'warning' about'bad ps syntax') Dave G0CER 2008/8/10 Jim Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Ok I loaded Gtkterm fired it up and I get this error message > > "Cannot open /dev/ttyS0: Device or resource busy." > > So the question now is how do I find out what is making the > > port busy and how do I turn it off? > > > I bet there's a serial getty sitting on the port right now for a serial > console. Look inside a file called /etc/inittab for the serial port. You > can > do it this way: > > grep ttyS0 /etc/inittab > > If it comes back with a line that doesn't have a # in front, that's > probably > part of the problem. > > > > >>>I come back with nothing: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep ttyS0 /etc/inittab > grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /root > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root$ sudo grep ttyS0 /etc/inittab > [sudo] password for jim: > grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/root$ > > Jim Morgan KE5MKT > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > -- Dave G0CER (also G6VSG) http://www.eQSL.cc/Member.cfm?G0CER _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
