[BL] BL3 dialing problem
Sindi Keesan
keesan at iamjlamb.com
Tue Aug 17 20:03:45 EDT 2004
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 3aoo-cvfd at dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > Most (maybe all) of the time when I dial with BL3 I am
> > told that device ttyS1 is locked and it won't dial.
> > first I dialed with Kermit in DOS and then booted
> > to linux and dialed. Would this be causing the problem?
>
> Probably. It appears the stale lock is from DOS.
>
> > Is there a fix, other than dialing twice?
>
> Reset the computer before booting Linux.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
Thanks for the explanation. Dialing twice is probably faster than
rebooting DOS in my case. I was hoping I could just type some command to
open the stale lock (maybe include it in a dial script).. I am still
going online in DOS because DOS kermit has a scroll buffer in MDA mode.
But soon there may be an 'mgacon'!
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