cristian wrote:
> > /dev/ttyS1 thats comm2 on a dos system, are we talking PPP
> > permissions here.???
>
> Yes, it is about PPP, or to be more precise it is about kppp (from KDE).
> When I tried to use kppp I got a message " kan't open modem".
> Modem was OK, ppp was OK, I tried with Minicom.
> I supposed it was something with the ttyS1 permissions, and after I
> changed to rwx rwx rwx, kppp began working.
> I use mostly Midn.Comm. and it has an option "chmod" which usually
> works, but not this time.
Just a little commentary on this.
I'm pointing you on that, Cristian, because I was under
RH 6.0 recently and kppp shown problems sometimes (randomly, in fact :) ).
Kppp could not work for different reasons:
1) There could be a lock on modem in /var/lock (I think the file is
LCK..modem)
2) there is two (or more) different ppp interfaces running at the same
time. Cause when kppp
have been exiting sometimes anormally, the first ppp interface (like ppp0)
could have
not been down. and so you got to disconnect, to shut down every ppp
interface (as root), with:
ifconfig down the_ppp_interface
with the_ppp_interface something like pppX, where X is an integer (do
ifconfig to see).
Then verify there is no lock file, that every pppd is killed, then start
kppp again.
This problems also showed up (for me at least) when I exited KDE anormally,
like
a program freezed X, or linuxconf modifying things when nobody asked it to
do so :).
Hope this will prevent problems you may encounter.
Ismael
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