On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Gaurav Agarwal wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using red Hat 6.0. I have a mgetty running for users to dial in
> to my system.now since i want to connect to the internet,
> i use minicom to dial, and successfully log in to my isp's account, and
> start ppp on HIS server, and when the garbage - like characters start
> coming, i give the command :
> /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS1 38400 crtscts modem defaultroute
> noipdefault -detach
> on a separte terminal
> however i get the command : device ttyS1 is locked by process id 1376
minicom is locking the device. you should exit minicom without resetting
the modem before you start ppp on your side. just press Ctrl-A Q in
minicom.
cheers
alex
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