Re: bootup message and ppp

[Oswald Buddenhagen <ob6@inf.tu-dresden.de>]

> What does the message "S30.serial: Permission denied" during bootup 
> mean?
> 
that means, that a boot script cannot be executed.
you have to "chmod u+rx /etc/init.d/serial" (the file names may be a bit
different. i'm not sure ...)

> The ppp dial-in is still unreliable. Usually the first attempt fails,
> [...]
> What might be the problem? Once the connection is settled, it seems to
> be stable.
> 
this might be related to the above problem, as the serial port, through
which the modem is connected, cannot be set up properly.

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