Re: Making Device Fiiles

[Rafael <raffi@ark.linwin.com>]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 05:51:58PM -0600, John J. Boyer wrote:
> Rafael,
> When I changed the link at /dov/modem to point to /dev/ttyS1 Minicom
> showed a sort of menu with the instruction to press CRTl-a and z for
> help. So I dod that, pressed p for parameters, set them to 300n81.

Good, that means your program is running.

> However, minicom still won't create the /etc/minicomrc.dfl file.
> Incidentally, it has an attrocious interface. Instead of just using a

That interface is "block graphics", i.e. there is a frame around the text
that pops up on top of the basic text. That's OK for people with good
vision but I don't know if you can turn that off or not.

> plain text interface it is doing something fancy. Anyway, it is
> accessing the modem, because the modem is sending back instructions and
> error messages that I'm familiar with.
> So how do I get this beast to create its configuration file?

Is your root partition mounter read write? I see no reason for root not to 
be able to write to /etc or any other partition for that matter.

What happens if you try
touch /etc/minicomrc.dfl

That should create an empty file. Don't know what else could be a problem.

> John
> On Tue, 29 Jan
> 2002, Rafael wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 03:45:28PM -0600, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > > Janina,
> > > This site appears to be mostly about a special card which they
> > > developed, and the software appears to be designed to work with this
> > > card. I'm just looking for a program that will work with the modem I
> > > already have hooked up. Minicom keeps complaining about one thing and
> > > another. There is no global minicomrc.dfl file, and if I try minicom -s
> > > it won't do anything. I tried making a link to ttys1, but that doesn't
> > > help. It just gives a different error message.
> >
> > You quoted ttys1, note it should be ttyS0 that's capital S.
> >
> > I just tested minicom on y system as root. The sequence to change the
> > parameters is
> > Ctrl-A z p a q
> >
> > Ctrl-A o (scrol down 2 lines for serial port configuration) where you can
> > make changes. Under A is Serial Device : /dev/ttyS0 (on my system)
> > E -    Bps/Par/Bits       : 9600 8N1
> > F - Hardware Flow Control : Yes
> > G - Software Flow Control : No
> >
> > As root you should be able to create minicomrc.dfl. If you want to use
> > minicom program you might need to change the ownership of /dev/ttyS0 to
> > other user or chmod 666 it.
> >
> > If minicom doesn't work you may try program kermit. I used both to connect
> > PC with linux to serial ports on Sun servers.
> >
> >
> > > John
> > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Janina
> > > Sajka wrote:
> > >
> > > > John:
> > > >
> > > > Can you use the source available at:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.zapatatelephony.org/
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > > I'm trying to set up minicom to work with a special modem for
> > > > > communicating with the deaf relay service and with deaf friends and
> > > > > customers. The modem is in serial port 2. The parameters are 300 baud, 8
> > > > > data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity, half duplex. The 300 baud speed is
> > > > > standard for this application, since people are just typing. When I do
> > > > > minicom -s
> > > > > as root, I get the message that it cannot find /dev/modem. So how do I
> > > > > make this file? I am using Redhat 7.1.
> > > > > Thanks.
> > > > > John
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
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> > >
> >
> >
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Rafael