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Re: cannot open modem device - Help!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (josri)
Thu Oct 22 19:07:05 1998
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 16:03:30 -0700
From: josri <josri@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: josri@earthlink.net
To: Dave Reed <dreed@capital.edu>
CC: redhat-list@redhat.com
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Hi
Thanks for the reply. But I even tried this, still I get the same result. Is
there a possibility of a lock file sitting somewhere?
Dave Reed wrote:
> > 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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