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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