help on error msg mgetty !

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Hi,

On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 08:25:54AM -0400, Greg wrote:
>     Could someone point me in the right direction to 
> correct these errors I'm picking up with mgetty
> 1.1.14-2  I'm trying to set up a dial in and dial out
> and I'm not sure if this is a software or hardware
> problem but more then likely both.
> 
> lnx kernel: registered device ppp0
> lnx mgetty[351]: TIOCMBIS failed: Input/output error
> lnx mgetty[351]: cannot turn off soft carrier: Input/output error
> lnx mgetty[351]: tcgetattr failed: Input/output error
> lnx mgetty[351]: cannot get TIO: Input/output error

Does this happen at dial-in or dial-out time?  Or both?  If it happens at
dial-out time, you have a locking problem (pppd doesn't create the correct
lock file, so mgetty doesn't know the serial port is in use).

gert
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