Hi, at the current state umtsmon is a nice tool, but still requires root to actually connect. Therefore I propose the attached patch, which changes the KDE menu entry to make use of Debian's su-to-root. Greetings, Chris Hildebrandt
diff -u umtsmon-0.9/debian/menu umtsmon-0.9/debian/menu
--- umtsmon-0.9/debian/menu
+++ umtsmon-0.9/debian/menu
@@ -5 +5 @@
- command="umtsmon"
+ command="su-to-root -X -c /usr/bin/umtsmon"
diff -u umtsmon-0.9/debian/control umtsmon-0.9/debian/control
--- umtsmon-0.9/debian/control
+++ umtsmon-0.9/debian/control
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Patrick Winnertz <winnie@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 6), libqt3-mt-dev, libusb-dev, qt3-dev-tools
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 6), libqt3-mt-dev, libusb-dev, quilt, qt3-dev-tools
Standards-Version: 3.8.0
Homepage: http://umtsmon.sf.net
Package: umtsmon
Architecture: any
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, menu
Description: control and monitor wireless mobile network cards
umtsmon controls and monitors wireless mobile network cards that use ETLAs
such as GPRS, EDGE, WCDMA, UMTS and HSDPA. It handles PIN codes, operator
only in patch2:
unchanged:
--- umtsmon-0.9.orig/debian/patches/01_su-to-root.patch
+++ umtsmon-0.9/debian/patches/01_su-to-root.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+start umtsmon as root by relying on su-to-root, which is part of the Debian
+specific "menu" package. In its current form, umtsmon cannot control ppp
+as non-root.
+
+--- a/umtsmon.desktop
++++ b/umtsmon.desktop
+@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Comment[en_US]=control your 3G mobile de
+ Comment[de]=Verwalte dein UMTS/GPRS-PCMCIA-Modem
+ Comment[nl]=Bestuur je mobiele netwerk apparaat
+ Encoding=UTF-8
+-Exec=umtsmon
++Exec=su-to-root -X -c /usr/bin/umtsmon
+ GenericName=umtsmon - control your 3G mobile devices
+ GenericName[en_US]=umtsmon - control your 3G mobile devices
+ Icon=umtsmon-128x128.png
+@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ Name[de]=umtsmon
+ Path=
+ StartupNotify=true
+ Terminal=false
+-TerminalOptions=
+ Type=Application
+ X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
+ X-KDE-StartupNotify=true
only in patch2:
unchanged:
--- umtsmon-0.9.orig/debian/patches/series
+++ umtsmon-0.9/debian/patches/series
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+01_su-to-root.patch
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