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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!nic.hookup.net!news.moneng.mei.com!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!portal.gmu.edu!mason1.gmu.edu!twallace From: twallace@mason1.gmu.edu ( ) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: more NetBSD/modem questions Date: 1 Feb 1994 02:29:06 GMT Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2ikepi$r1l@portal.gmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mason1.gmu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks to all the people who sent mail helping me to get my NetBSD machine, Zippy, up and running with a modem. However, I seem to be running into one particular problem no matter what approach I take to the modem situation: /dev/com0: Permission denied These are the pertinant facts: 1. I recently added a serial port to Zippy, and it shows up as being properly installed both in the AMI bios and during the NetBSD boot. During the boot it says it is com0. 2. There is a file /dev/com0. When I do a ls -l com0 I get the following: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 5 Dec 9 21:57 com0 -> tty00 I have no idea what this means. Every time I try to do anything with com0, I get the message com0: Permission denied 3. I have been doing all of this while logged in as root. Thanks for any help or hints about this situation!