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On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, jmcab wrote:

> I just installed 2.2.1 on a 386 20 w/ 8m of ram. Everything works well except the modem. It is on sio1, the port was recognized by the config. But when I try to use tip, I get this error msg:
> Lock open: no such file or directory
> all ports busy

Make sure /var/spool/lock exists and is writable, and that you are a
member of the ``dialer'' group.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major