> In my experience, I've had to turn MGETTY OFF when I wanted to make an
> outbound PPP call. Dunno exactly why. I can dial out when I have MGETTY
> running, if I dial out with something like Minicom.
Sounds like your pppd is not getting its locks right. Possible causes:
1) it has not been told to use locks (``lock'' on the command line or in
the options file sorts this out)
2) You may be mixing /dev/ttyS? with /dev/cua? devices --- mgetty doesn't like
cua's and you should not use them at all on a port that mgetty is using.
3) pppd has been compiled to put the locks in the wrong place. If you run:
strings /usr/sbin/pppd | grep LCK
you should get ``/var/lock/LCK..'' --- If not you need a different pppd.
A clasic symptom of this sort of locking failure is that you will see mgetty's
attempts to reset the modem in the logs of the outgoing chat --- Mgetty doesn't
know you're still using its line, so it goes ahead and resets it almost as soon
as you start dialing.
Cheers, Phil.
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