[Techtalk] WVDIAL won't release modem

[housekm at fastmail.fm]

Hi, 

It looks like its something other than a running process is causing
wvdial to say the modem is busy.  I did a killall pppd, even a killall
-g, but apparently control-c from the command line does kill all pppd
processes.  (/dev/modem and /dev/ttyS0 permissions are fine).  Thanks for
your reply - it helped eliminate one thing I thought was causing the
error.  I'll just keep plugging away at this, it's not critical.

Kathleen

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 10:45:05 -0800, "PCasper" <sylph at cyber-dyne.com> said:
> I used "killall pppd" to exit when I used wvdial
> 
> I just made it into a shortcut/icon in my WM
> 
> --Poppy
> 
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> From: <housekm at fastmail.fm>
> To: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 10:32 AM
> Subject: [Techtalk] None
> 
> 
> > Hello, all,
> > 
> > I've hacked my way through first-time linux installation as far as
> > getting
> > wvdial to work from root.  My problem is getting out:  the only way I
> > know
> > to make the script quit is control/c.  This works for root, but not for
> > any
> > other ID - it leaves ttyS0 locked up & any other user that tries to get
> > in
> > gets a "device or resource busy" message.
> > 
> > Can anyone tell me either how to send an interrupt signal (+++ or ATH) to
> > the modem directly (like the echo ATH >COM1: in window$) so that I can
> > append it to my dialup script or how to exit wvdial so that the modem is
> > freed?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > Kathleen
> > 
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