Linux_"Modem Busy"

[Gentle Giant]

I have the latest Redhat,SuSe, and Mandrake.
Using KPPP I get "Modem Busy" with SuSe, and Mandrake but everything works fine on Redhat.
Cant figure out why the modem is busy for those distro's.

[CMonster]

I think those distributions are looking at something else - did you try "ttyS1" (or whatever serial port the modem is) instead of "dev/modem?"

I had that problem with the plug and play modem until I assigned it com port manually. I finally assigned it COM2, disabled the onboard COM2, and forced Linux to accept the fact that COM2 was in fact "dev/modem."

Was it not you who showed me how to "set serial" in Linux?

Yep, I have seen that message before...

[Gentle Giant]

Yes that was me CMonster, done what you mentioned already - still working on the problem from Mandrake when I have time. Just wondered what would be different in those two
disro's from Redhat.

[Gentle Giant]

Got it working.
I put the setserial in the rc.local file as I did in Redhat but it seems to put the modem somewhere and the rc.local setserial is ignored.