Sedat Ozkanli wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> I own a Compaq Armada 1590DT laptop and an Apache V90 PCMCIA modem.  The
> modem works on COM2 on DOS and Windows, and is supposed to work on ttyS1 on
> Mandrake Linux 7.0, but for some odd reason kppp gives me an error claiming
> that it is busy.
> 
> In kppp, when I setup the modem on ttyS2, I get a modem ready response, but
> when I query it, I get absolutely no feedback.  On ttyS1 it refuses to work
> altogether, and gives me that odd "Sorry, modem is busy" error.
> 
> Does anyone know how I can solve this problem?
> 
> Thank you,
> Sedat Ozkanli
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Yep

Use setserial to force the configuration.

For details open a console and type

man setserial

Most likely the modem is on that port with a non-standard
interrupt
/dev/ttys1 is on IRQ 3 and I think you will find it instead on
IRQ 10

setserial -a /dev/cua1 should give you a status.

Civileme

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