Ok: success!  After changing the permissions a a BUNCH of files, and
ownerships, and even generating new groups (ppp), finally, when I changed
the ownership of /etc/wvdial to root:dialout, the setup works!

Isn't that always the way?   When I finally have posted and given up, a new
option occurs to me that works!

Thank you to everyone who made suggestions.

Alan Davis

On 11/28/05, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've been plunking around with this.  I tried what may be a brute force
> method: change the permissions of /dev/ttyS14.  But /dev/ttyS14 is a link to
> /dev/tts/14.  I now see that is a devfs rendering?  I thought I do not have
> support for devfs, and I am trying to use something  else.
>
> Anyway, is it possible my problems are related to this issue?
>
> I see that the "Cannot open /dev/ttyS14: device or resource busy" message
> is a common one.  And there are almost as many proposed solutions as there
> are instances.  There surely would be an easy way to do such a simple
> thing?   Nothing works for me.
>
> Alan Davis
>
>
> On 11/28/05, Dale <dalek@exceedtech.net> wrote:
> >
> > John J. Foster wrote:
> >
> > >On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 10:20:15PM -0600, Dale wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>Now wvdial, it dials out, then sits for a minute, then disconnects
> > with
> > >>the error that my password is wrong, which is crap because it is
> > >>correct.  I only got wvdial to work once on another rig.  It has never
> > >>worked on this one though.  Anybody have a clue on that one?  I just
> > >>like to have options in case it pours instead of just a little shower.
> >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >Hi Dale - I had the same problem until I set
> > >
> > >Stupid Mode=yes in /etc/wvdial.conf. All was fine then.
> > >
> > >John
> > >
> > >
> > Thanks for that tip.  I'll try that.  I like to have as many back-ups as
> >
> > I can get.  If it were not for bad luck, I would have no luck at all.
> > Well, there is the exception of my girlfriend.  She is the best thing,
> > person, to happen yet.
> >
> > Dale
> > :-)
> >
> > --
> > To err is human, I'm most certainly human.
> >
> >
> >
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