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[klug] Dial up connection

Nathan Cook nathan at coast-computers.co.nz
Mon Nov 7 22:04:15 NZDT 2005


Thanks Graeme for the quick replies, can get root to connect just fine 
but no access to the internet under root, I chmod 777 the /var/lock 
folder but my user name still could not get the modem to connect, came 
up with the error below. Any other hints?

Cheers

Nathan

Regards

Nathan

Graeme Neilson wrote:

> 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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