Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:50:32
Message-Id: 4F6995D7.2050802@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-gentoo woes cont'd by Maxim Wexler
1 Maxim Wexler wrote:
2 >>
3 >> This brings back nightmares. It's been a while since I used dial-up but
4 >> this sounds like a permissions issue. Check /etc/group and see if you
5 >> are in ALL the following groups:
6 >>
7 >> tty
8 >> uucp
9 >> dialout
10 >> utmp
11 >
12 > They're all in the file, if that's what you mean.
13 >
14 >>
15 >> You can also check the permissions of the ttyS<some number here> to see
16 >> what it is. Mine is uucp. You shouldn't have to create a group so work
17 >> with what you got for now. My devices are set to this:
18 >>
19 >> root@fireball / # ls -al /dev/ttyS*
20 >> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 64 Mar 20 19:01 /dev/ttyS0
21 >> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 65 Mar 20 16:12 /dev/ttyS1
22 >> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 66 Mar 20 16:12 /dev/ttyS2
23 >> crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 67 Mar 20 16:12 /dev/ttyS3
24 >> root@fireball / #
25 >
26 > lumby syzygy # ls -al /dev/ttyUSB0
27 > crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 Mar 20 16:25 /dev/ttyUSB0
28 > lumby syzygy #
29 >
30 >
31
32
33 Oh, USB modem. I stayed away from those. I always used a serial modem.
34
35 Worth a shot tho.
36
37 Dale
38
39 :-) :-)
40
41 --
42 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
43 how you interpreted my words!
44
45 Miss the compile output? Hint:
46 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"