Re: cua2/ttyS2 problems

Kelly French (targon@hazmat.com)
Fri, 6 Mar 1998 15:00:53 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 6 Mar 1998 hemsleyr@keyline.co.uk wrote:

> I'm still having trouble with getting access to /dev/cua2 / /dev/ttyS2
> in 2.1.88
>
> Thanks to those who suggested using /dev/ttyS2 instead of cua2, but
> still no joy.
>
> Device is busy ?
>
> I don't understand why.
> Where does this message come from, when there's no LCK.. files in
> /var/lock ? If I know how the kernel determines if a device is 'busy', I
> might be able to dig deeper.

ttyS2? 3rd serial port? I had the same problem until I noticed that I
forgot to 'setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 9'. I couldn't use it because the
interrupt was being used for another serial port.

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