On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 08:24:21PM -0500, A. F. Cano wrote: > > Greetings everyone, > > I'm at an impasse: too many variables. I've read the laptop-net manual very > carefully, twice, configured laptop-net per the manual, but I'm getting > erratic behavior. First the general questions: > I'm not using laptop-net, so I can't say if it messes up dial-up. But solving those problems where root can do things and ordinary users can't: use sudo to permit ordinary users to run pon and poff. In debian it is a bad idea to change permissions of files. The Debian way is to add users to the appropriate groups, for example adduser username dialout permits username to dial out using serial lines since dilbert# ls -l /dev/ttyS? crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 64 elo 1 1997 /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 65 elo 1 1997 /dev/ttyS1 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 66 elo 1 1997 /dev/ttyS2 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 67 elo 1 1997 /dev/ttyS3 I have managed the interfaces I use with /etc/network/interfaces and pon/poff for dial-up links. This seems to be the easiest way and does least damage to the Debian way of handling network interfaces. -- Tapio Lehtonen Tapio.Lehtonen@IKI.FI GPG public key from http://www.iki.fi/Tapio.Lehtonen http://www.taleman.fi/ IT-alan asiantuntijapalvelut Porissa
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