On Sunday, May 27, 2001, Luis Chardon wrote:
> I recently installed mandrake 8.0 on my box. After I configured the
> ppp dialup connection using linuxconf, I do an ifup ppp0 and it does
> not connect. After I do the command, it hangs up for some 15 seconds
> and then returns an error code 6, which on the pppd man page says that
> it is unable to lock the serial device. I tried to debug the scripts
> to see where it exactly is getting stuck and it is at the moment it
> calls ppp-watch.
Try using the network setup in Mandrake Control Center. I found it to
work better for me than linuxconf. Using linuxconf worked fine in 7.2,
but I had problems with it in 8.0.
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