On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 12:50:31AM +0300, Andrew Todorov wrote:
> I attached my external Rockwell modem to COM1 / TTY00 then created a link with name "modem" and when I start Minicom for example it sais : "/dev/modem is locked".  With XISP the modem responds only with DTR red light and only this.I can't dial anyware. What can I do?

Are you root when you're using minicom ?
It's possible it's trying to create a lock file but doesn't have the
permission to.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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