You have to run minicom -s as root. Are you doing that? Also, you can iteratively work through your serial ports--to be sure you have the right one with 'echo ata >ttyS0' etc on up through whatever -- ttyS3, I suppose. I don't know whether you have any hearing to get benefit from this, but it should sound like a modem answering the phone. Shut it off with 'echo ath >ttyS?' of course. The website I gave you has source, I think, for generating baudot. Don't know how device specific that code is for their board, but I thought it was fairly general when I looked at it some time ago. On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, 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. > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org