On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 05:25:06AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > I can run and dail and otherwise use minicom as root, but if I try as a > regular user, I get > > minicom: cannot open /dev/ttyS1: Permission denied > > ls /dev/ttyS1 results in... > > crw-r----- 1 root dialout 4, 65 Feb 20 05:21 ttyS1 > > I'm a member of the dialout group, however.
you sure ? "groups" says dialout ? you logged back in after adding yourself to the group ? > Changing group permissions on ttyS1 results in similar futility. > > WTF? is minicom trying to open the port for read and write access ? try "chmod g+w /dev/ttyS1" Al.
