[klug] Dial up connection

[Graeme Neilson]

Nathan,

You will either need to run kpp setuid root or you need write access to 
the dir where the modem lock file is written which is normally /var/lock

Graeme

Nathan Cook wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Someone a while ago mentioned a few details on getting Suse working 
> with a dial up connection, I have both a Hardware Dynalink modem and a 
> Dynalink Winmodem to use, both are detected by Suse and I can edit the 
> properties.
>
> The Hardware modem is detected and assigned to ttys0 and the winmodem 
> is assigned to ttyLT0.
>
> After I configure the modem in Yast along with the dial up properties 
> of Clear Net I go to the kppp settings and it asks me to setup the 
> connection in there, I follow the instructions provided but when I get 
> the part to configure the modem and test it I get the error "unable to 
> create modem lock file".
>
> Anyone able to help, the searches I did through Google didn't bring up 
> anything obvious?
>
> Cheers
>
> Nathan
>
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