Something wrong with serial ports?

["Petteri Heinonen" <h157056@cs.tut.fi>]

Hi there.
I've had problems with ppp, so I've tried following:
I launched pppd on /dev/pts/2, which was one of my terminal emulator
windows. PPP-carbage appears in this window and syslog gives:

Nov  1 17:37:03 kapula pppd[412]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
Nov  1 17:37:03 kapula pppd[412]: Using interface ppp0
Nov  1 17:37:03 kapula pppd[412]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/2
Nov  1 17:37:33 kapula pppd[412]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Nov  1 17:37:33 kapula pppd[412]: Connection terminated.
Nov  1 17:37:34 kapula pppd[412]: Exit.

If I try to ttyS1 with pppd /dev/ttyS1, syslog only gives:

Nov  1 17:43:06 kapula pppd[440]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0

pppd doesn't even stop unless I kill it.

So my questions: Shouldn't I get same things in syslog when trying with
ttyS1 too as with pts/2? And shouldn't I get these messages even if there is
nothing connected in /dev/ttyS1?

I'll also give you dmesg output (only part concerningn PPP or serial ports):

ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP line discipline registered.

thanks in advance,

Petteri Heinonen
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