Do you have it set to COM2? I believe that's usually the assumed modem
port.
You may be doing this already, but for non pnp devices, it's usually good
to run "add new hardware" from control pannel.
DvB
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Brent Timmer wrote:
> for some reason my windows won't even see it if I don't have it set to pnp,
> but then again that's windows for you.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David van Balen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 2:20 AM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] "sorry,modem is busy"
>
>
> >
> >
> > It did for me. I used the same modem, with the same settings, under win95
> > and winNT a while back. I may have had to tell it the settings but how
> > hard is that?
> >
> > DvB
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Brent Timmer wrote:
> >
> > > Yeah, but then windows won't find it(if you have windows, that is)
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "David van Balen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 12:38 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [newbie] "sorry,modem is busy"
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, George Houdek-Viskovska wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi everyone !!
> > > > > I have problem with Kppp and minicom .
> > > > > I click on Connection and LINUX show me window with : "Sorry,modem
> is
> > > busy" but my modem is not busy ???Line, modem is OK but for Kppp and
> minicom
> > > is modem busy .
> > > > > Please help me . George
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I've heard of that happening when people try to use isa PnP modems. It
> can
> > > > usually be solved by setting the COM port and IRQ manually (using dip
> > > > switches) instead trying to detect it automatically.
> > > >
> > > > DvB
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
