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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!news From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Minicom won't open /dev/modem Date: 16 Jan 1997 00:46:15 GMT Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5bjton$5kk@uuneo.neosoft.com> References: <32DC5614.41C67EA6@wue.ndip.eskimo.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.152 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34098 In article <32DC5614.41C67EA6@wue.ndip.eskimo.net>, Enoch Wu <wue@wue.ndip.eskimo.net> writes: > Hi, > > The first thing I did after I booted up FreeBSD today is > to run minicom. Well, an error message showed up like this: > > Can't open /dev/modem. Permission denied. > > The fact is, I was running minicom as root. Why can this happen ? > Minicom was working until I got dial on demand ppp working last week. > > 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 | conrads@neosoft.com | Eschew obfuscation. http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads |