Re: Newbie comments & queries
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 12:13:50AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
| OK, OK, OK,
|
| I _am_ reading the modem-HOWTO and the wvdial README right now.
|
| I can see this is a complex subject.
|
| I have installed minicom but can only run from root. When run from user
| I get:
|
| minicom cannot open /dev/ttyS1: permission denied
$ ls -l /dev/ttyS1
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 65 Dec 31 1969 /dev/ttyS1
Only root and members of the 'dialout' group have access to that
device. Add your user to the dialout group to solve this.
From man adduser :
# adduser <me> dialout
-D
--
"...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as
meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver."
--Daniel Pead
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