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Re: cannot open modem device - Help!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Reed)
Thu Oct 22 18:56:25 1998
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 18:59:09 -0400
From: Dave Reed <dreed@capital.edu>
To: josri@earthlink.net
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <362F9FC1.84473DDE@earthlink.net> (message from josri on Thu, 22
Oct 1998 14:12:33 -0700)
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> I am using ezppp to dialup to my isp. When I was trying to open the
> bookmarks in netscape, suddenly it started acting weird, and it started
> generating many errors in a loop and I was not able to stop it so I just
> quitted the xwindows with Alt+Backspace. (without disconnecting the
> internet connection)
> In ezppp there is a button which will toggle between "connect" and
> "disconnect". When the connection is up the ezppp should show
> "disconnect" on the button. But when I again started the xwindows, I
> found the button on ezppp as "connect" that means it has disconnected.
> So I tried "ps aux|grep pppd" and I found that the pppd is running. Then
> I killed the pppd with the "kill" command and when I again started the
> ezppp and clicked the "connect" button I got the error saying "cannot
> open modem device".
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards
> jo
It sounds like the modem still thinks it is being used by a process.
The simple solution is probably the Micro$oft solution - reboot and
everything will be cleared out. I'm certain there's another way, but
unless you're trying for a record uptime, I would just do a shutdown
-r and start ezppp again.
Dave
dreed@capital.edu
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