Many thanks Scott, I've added my username to the group (uucp) and now I can access the modem! I've still got a problem with the program, but at least I've made some progress with your help. Best regards, Andy On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 00:51, Scott Gillespie wrote: > On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 06:25:49PM +0000, Andy Allen wrote: > > Help please, > > Adding "COM4:"="/dev/ttyS0" to wine/conf file doesn't seem to do the > > trick - comms program installed in wine still says "communication port > > cannot be opened" - any ideas on how to access the modem please? > > > > Thanks, > > Andy > > > > _______________________________________________ > > wine-users mailing list > > wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users > > Possibly, this is a permissions issue. > I'm using Slackware (10) and my /dev/ttyS0 -> vc/0, is owned by me - > which I presumably did a while ago... It is by default owned by root:tty > I believe. > > If you're /dev/ttyS0 has the group 'tty', place yourself in that group. > (edit /etc/group and put your name next to the tty group, comma > seperated if there already is a name - There's a more simple way using a > command, however I've forgotten it). Make sure you logout and in again > and group 'groups' to make sure you're in tty. > > If it's not owned by tty, but another group (apart from 'root') add > yourself to that instead, or change (creating if need be) it to tty and > do the above. You should probably stick with what your distro uses, > however. > > Now you should be able to use the port - and all the others for that > matter. > > Regards, > Scott _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
