It is not wierd. It sounds like permission problems on the serial
port. Here is what I have
$ ls -l /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root uucp 4, 64 Dec 3 2004 /dev/ttyS0
crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 65 Feb 23 2004 /dev/ttyS1
$
I had to set it up that way in order to use minicom on ttyS0.
I haven't set up ttyS1.
Mike
my permissions on the machine that yesterday I could change back and
forth on,
[root@localhost ~]# ls -l /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS1
crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 64 Jul 12 15:11 /dev/ttyS0
crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 65 Jul 12 2005 /dev/ttyS1
which now is stuck at ttyS0 and won't allow me to change, if I wanted
to, to ttyS1. Fortunately, I don't need to on this machine. All other
boxes, 1 at work, CentOS(default minicom installed) and 2 at home, 1
FC3(either default minicom or compiled from source install) and
centOS(default minicom install), are stuck on ttyS1 and won't change to
ttyS0. The permissions on the work CentOS box for ttyS0 and ttyS1 are
the same as above. Cheers.
Mark Sargent.
