Re: UPDATE.....

"Trailboss" <trailboss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:H3EWf.53$hP5.4@xxxxxxxx:

I guess the software is supposed to take control of the modem and wait
for dialin connections? so thats why the port already open error?
hmmm...I shoulda charged him for this....lol....(I do get free booze
out of it!)


I ran into this same "Port already open" problem with my sister's laptop.
It drove me nuts until I realized it wasn't a modem problem. It turned out
she had loaded a PDA auto-sync program that was staring at the serial port
the modem happened to be on. I think the same thing can happen with the
Windows web server and auto-answer software, if it's misconfigured.

Start shutting down all the extra programs until the port is free and the
modem diagnostic runs.


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