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Re: strace pppd: open("/dev/ttyS1", O_RDWR <unfinished ...>



Jumping in late here...

On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 11:31:35PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:58:13PM +0200, Andrea Tasso (andrea@tasso.info) wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:04:20PM +0300 or thereabouts, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 06:49:15AM +0200, Andrea Tasso wrote:
> > > > hi all,
> > > > pppd does not connect any more (to another pc with null modem cable), it used to work perfectly.
> > > > the command
> > > > 
> > > > pppd -detach debug crtscts 192.168.6.1:192.168.6.2 lock /dev/ttyS1 38400
> > > > 
> > > >  gives no output, and finally exits

I've suffered that too.  My solution was to add "local" instead, e.g.

pppd -detach debug local 192.168.6.1:192.168.6.2 lock /dev/ttyS1 38400
                   ^^^^^

which then worked (with a lap-link cable that is).

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