In message <1188166098.738058.182580 at w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, paul wrote: > Before I had posted this question first thing I did was to look at / > dev/ttyS0, and indeed the group is dialout (gid=20)... What are the full protections on the serial port? That is, can you post the output of ls -l /dev/ttyS0 please?