Re: Can't dial up
Well, I managed to get the root user to query the modem. kppp started
to work once I issued
ln -f /dev/ttyS4 /dev/modem
But I would rather not have to log on the internet as a root user. It
wont go from my regular user account. I did use kuser to add to ip
and dialout. kppp just gives me "unable to open modem," but
wvdialconf is more revealing, it says
attempting /dev/ttyS4, /dev/modem is a link to it
/dev/ttyS4 permission denied.
now, how can this be, shouldm't permission have been granted when I
added the user to the dip and dialout group? How can I go about
fixing this one?!
Thanks for any and all advice, and sorry to be such a noob.
---
Scotty
On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 06:20:04 +0200, Steve Mandelmore
<circle@infinitezoom.com> wrote:
>Scotty Fitzgerald wrote:
>
>> Advice please, I can't dial up.
>>
>> I am using the K environment, and I enter the command "kppp" and when
>> I go to set the device, I can't. My modem is on /dev/ttys4 but that is
>> not in the drop down box. I tried "ln -s /dev/ttys4 /dev/modem" from
>> the shell, but when I select /dev/modem from the drop down box, it
>> does not work when I hit the button to test modem.
>>
>> Any advice? Please help.
>
>Here are some things to try (if you haven't already):
>
>Add your user account to the dip and dialout groups. Log out and log back
>in afterwards. Try KUser or just do this on the shell commandline:
># adduser steve dip
># adduser steve dialout
>
>Change 'auth' to 'noauth' in /etc/ppp/options. Now try KPPP again.
>
>Maybe try running pppconfig (as root), go through the setup steps, then try
>$ pon YourConnectionName
>
>Or try installing and running wvdial. If none of this works, there's
>probably something wrong with the modem setup. Just a thought, but
>maybe /dev/ttys4 needs to be /dev/ttyS4 (capital S) for the symlink?
>
>Steve
>
>
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