Jim Have you got any results for this? - it maybe somethings sitting on it and you can kill that process - at least to prove it works, then move onto sorting out the problem with whatever is sitting on tyS0
73s Dave G0CER 2008/8/10 Dave H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 > -- 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
