>From a program called by the welcome script which tries to access the serial port (in this case /dev/ttyI0) I get the errormessage: Port or socket open error! I guess, that the serial port is blocked by the pppd. Is there any possibility to access the serial port nevertheless? Thanks for any help Thilo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html