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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!phaedrus.kralizec.net.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news-hub.interserv.net!news.interserv.com!news From: Enoch Wu <wue@eskimo.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Minicom won't open /dev/modem Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 09:44:26 -0800 Organization: InterServ News Service Lines: 27 Message-ID: <32DE68FA.28ED@eskimo.com> References: <32DC5614.41C67EA6@wue.ndip.eskimo.net> <5bjton$5kk@uuneo.neosoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ralph.ci.seattle.wa.us Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34128 Conrad Sabatier wrote: > > In article <32DC5614.41C67EA6@wue.ndip.eskimo.net>, > Enoch Wu <wue@wue.ndip.eskimo.net> writes: > > Hi, > > ... > > Can't access /dev/modem. Permission denied. > > ... > > My PPP uses /dev/cuaa1. Minicom uses /dev/modem with a symlink > > to /dev/cuaa1. This appears to be the only difference between the > > PPP and Minicom in accessing the modem. > > Have you tried using /dev/cuaa1 in minicom? Is there any reason why you > shouldn't? > > -- > Conrad Sabatier | Hi, I think I screwed up the file group for minicom earlier. I fixed the problem by "chgrp wheel minicom". Thanks for your reply. EW