[expert] ifup in LM 8.0

[Luis Chardon]

Hi,   I recently installed mandrake 8.0 on my box. After I configured the ppp dialup connection using linuxconf, I do an ifup ppp0 and it does not connect. After I do the command, it hangs up for some 15 seconds and then returns an error code 6, which on the pppd man page says that it is unable to lock the serial device. I tried to debug the scripts to see where it exactly is getting stuck and it is at the moment it calls ppp-watch.   If I do the connection with kppp, it works, so the modem is ok. Also minicom can open the modem and call any number.   This was working on 7.2.   Thanks in advance.   Luis