From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ttyS0 conflict was UPS recommendation
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 23:21:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080516232134.0e7ce426@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <558187.73071.qm@web31703.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On Fri, 16 May 2008 14:57:24 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote:
> > Thanks for your exhaustive replies. I've decided to go
> > for the APC ES-350 for seventy bucks at the local Staples.
> But when I try dialup I get this:
>
> Device ttyS0 is blocked by PID 3981
>
> which turns out is apcupsd. So I have to kill it before I can dial out.
> Sure enough, in the conf file there is this: DEVICE /dev/ttyS0.
Is this a serial or USB model? My APC CS 650 uses USB and the DEVICE
entry in the config file is just "DEVICE" as per the comments in the file
and the man page.
If it is a serial device, then you clearly cannot have two devices
plugged into the same post, so one of them must be ttyS1 or higher.
--
Neil Bothwick
WinErr 002: No Error - Yet
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-16 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-11 17:15 [gentoo-user] UPS recommendation maxim wexler
2008-05-11 17:35 ` Michael Beasley
2008-05-11 17:55 ` Roy Wright
2008-05-11 18:06 ` Mark Knecht
2008-05-11 19:59 ` Arthur Britto
2008-05-11 20:35 ` Hal Martin
2008-05-11 20:36 ` Arthur Britto
2008-05-13 11:51 ` PaulNM
2008-05-16 0:48 ` maxim wexler
2008-05-16 21:57 ` [gentoo-user] ttyS0 conflict was " maxim wexler
2008-05-16 22:21 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2008-05-17 1:23 ` maxim wexler
2008-05-11 21:41 ` [gentoo-user] " Willie Wong
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