I am able to dial my ISP using wvdial, however, the PPP daemon dies just following the entry "looks like a welcome message".

My /var/log/messages file shows the following entry:
"pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
Couldn't attach tty to PPP unit 0: invalid argument
tcsetattr:invalid argument"

Also, there's a message created by wvdial just in front of the message "looks like a welcome..." that says "IP address is 63.224.192.60. My ISP's Primary DNS is 216.104.72.5.

Questions:
1.) What is tty?
2.) Why is the system trying to attach tty to ppp?
3.) What do I do to cause tty to attach to ppp?
4.) What is IP address 63.224.192.60?
5.) Shouldn't the ip address be that of my ISP?


[Edited by rdaves@earthlink.net on 06-14-2001 at 12:09 PM]

In NG's this is referred to as crossposting and isnt really kewl. I think it wont speed up an answer, but look at the reply to ure other post for a possible answer.

Thanks for the input. I will not do this again. Didn't know it was a no-no.