On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 12:13:52 bsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk wrote:
I posted in the middle part of January about my neighbour's external modem that wouldn't dial out and failed with "NO CARRIER". This was running under Progeny Debian.
The latest development is that we have discovered that it will dial when running in Single User mode on his machine but not otherwise.
One possibility is that in multi-user mode more than one program is trying to talk to the modem at the same time. If you have lsof installed you could use that to stop things that have the /dev/ttyS0 device (or whatever device your modem is on) open. Alternatively maybe post the list of processes running in multi-user (with ps -ef) mode and see if we can spot things that look modem related.
Steve.