Mgetty/Auto PPP problem

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Hi there.
	I'm hoping you can help me out as I've had no reply from the mgetty
mailing list about joining, and I've spent over two days trying to get this
thing going. No doubt this will be something basic I've missed, but I've
come to my wits end. Basically I'm trying to get a dialin PPP connection
going to my machine. I have a modem on ttyS0 which is always connected to
the internet. I have a second modem on ttyS3 which I want to use as the
dialin modem. mgetty is working fine. Its answering the call, and detecting
the /AutoPPP/ from the windows machine. When it sends the command to pppd,
this is where it seems to be dying. Heres a snippit from
/var/log/mgetty/log_mg.ttyS3

10/14 22:47:29 ##### data dev=ttyS3, pid=1169, caller=none,
conn='28800/ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS', name='', cmd='/usr/sbin/pppd',
user='/AutoPPP/'

--
10/14 22:47:30 yS3  TIOCMBIS failed: I/O error
10/14 22:47:30 yS3  cannot turn off soft carrier: I/O error
10/14 22:47:30 yS3  tcgetattr failed: I/O error
10/14 22:47:30 yS3  cannot get TIO: I/O error

As you can see, the mgetty program is detecting the AutoPPP connection, but
the problem arises when pppd is called. This is my line in
/usr/local/etc/mgetty/login.config
/AutoPPP/  -   ppp   /usr/sbin/pppd auth -chap +pap login modem crtscts lock
My operating system is Slackware linux 4.0 with 2.2.10 kernel. My modem is
a USR sportser. PPPD version 2.3.7, mgetty is version 1.0
	Have you seen this problem before? If theres some docs you can point me to
which will solve this problem without my having to waste your time typing
me an answer, that would be fine. Otherwise, your help would be appreciated.

Cheers