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From: Benjamin Lim <fade@earthling.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: ARGH, setting up BSD PPP dial up is HELL...Help
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 17:28:23 +0800
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Read everything but it still won't work. When I type 'ppp Netvigator'
(Netvigator is my ISP) it returns an error All ports busy. I've edited
/etc/ttys and replaced the com ports with out, and even edited
/etc/group and added root to netdial and dialer. What am I doing wrong?

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