[aclug-L] Re: Serial port problems

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Okay, I tried that.  The mode was already set to 0660, which should be
sufficient, but I tried changing it nonetheless, as per your suggestion.  cu
was not installed (I'd never heard of that program... heh...) so I tried
minicom.  Same results as before.  *sigh*

I guess I'll keep swapping hardware components.


On Sun, Nov 14, 1999 at 08:50:59AM -0600, James G. wrote:
> Jonathan Hall wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to get PPP to work on a P120 system and am having nothing but
> > problems.  The problem is with the serial port(s).
> >
> 
> Try this:
> 
> chmod 0666 /dev/ttyS*
> cu -l ttyS1 -s 115200                (the 1st switch is "L")
> (now you should be talking directly to the modem. Type "AT" or something. If
> this doesn't work and it's an external modem.... I don't know.)
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 
> 

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