modem says its busy

[kchard]

Ive been trying to set up a usrobotics pro modem on my win98/knoppix the usrobotics people couldnt help me I finally got it to see the modem by setting it to ttyS2 but it says it is busy,is there a way to make this work or am I wasting my time,please someone help me.

[turbinater]

Do this:

cat /proc/pci

It sould list the name of the modem somewhere, and give an irq.

Next type:

dmesg | grep ttyS

It should come up with a list addresses(something like ttyS04), followed by an irq value.
Find the two irq's that match, then type (as root):
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ln -s /dev/(address) /dev/modem

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Then in kppp, select the device "/dev/modem". If your modem still doesn't work after that, it may be unsupported.

[windos_no_thanks]

Find the two irq's that match, then type (as root):

ls -s /dev/(address) /dev/modem

That probably should be:

ln -s /dev/(address) /dev/modem

[turbinater]

Find the two irq's that match, then type (as root):

ls -s /dev/(address) /dev/modem

That probably should be:

ln -s /dev/(address) /dev/modem

Yes, I believe that would work a lot better.