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 I remeber, that using this same procedure i once used to successfully connect to the internet. Please help me.. Thanks a ton, regards, Gaurav Agarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.prayagonline.com ICQ pager no: 37730201 ...