I check that already...i deleted the lock file and tried again. I also tried the other serial ports and kppp freezes when i try to querry the modem. When I do "setserial /dev/ttyS2" it reports back that it doesn't know what UART is being used - i'm taking this to mean that the modem is not being seen.

You probably have a stale modem lock in /var/lock --- check it out. Another possibility is the owner and permissions on ttyS2:

crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 66 Sep 7 02:05 /mnt/hda7/dev/ttyS2

You may have to add yourself to the uucp group.

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