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Followup: |
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Oh, it work, ok... until I rebooted. Then it didn't work for ordinary |
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(non-super users) to #wvdial anymore. |
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Apparently, using udev and sysfs, etc., the devices are made on boot. |
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Funny, that I had to run MAKEDEV to make the higher numbered nodes, like |
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/dev/ttyS14, where my modem resides. (The modem is not at this place on one |
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of the other systems I was playing around with---Knoppix, I think). |
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I am now going to learn udev. I want to anyway: I like the way Ubuntu jumps |
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into action when a flash drive or a printer is plugged in, and so do my |
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GNU/Linux doubting friends :-). |
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So far, it looks like rules for creating the device nodes include |
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permissions components. |
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I will get there eventually. Does anyone know, right off hand, though, how |
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to produce a rule to set up /dev/ttyS14 (/dev/tts/14 in the new |
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nomenclature) with permissions to allow dialup by anyone in group dialout? |
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It works to just do the following after booting: |
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# chmod o+rw /dev/tts |
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# chmod 0+rw /dev/tts/14 |
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Is this a security issue? |
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Thanks for the advices so far. |
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Alan Davis |
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On 11/28/05, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Ok: success! After changing the permissions a a BUNCH of files, and |
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> ownerships, and even generating new groups (ppp), finally, when I changed |
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> the ownership of /etc/wvdial to root:dialout, the setup works! |
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> |
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> Isn't that always the way? When I finally have posted and given up, a |
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> new option occurs to me that works! |
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> Thank you to everyone who made suggestions. |
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> |
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> Alan Davis |
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> On 11/28/05, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > I've been plunking around with this. I tried what may be a brute force |
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> > method: change the permissions of /dev/ttyS14. But /dev/ttyS14 is a link to |
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> > /dev/tts/14. I now see that is a devfs rendering? I thought I do not have |
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> > support for devfs, and I am trying to use something else. |
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> > |
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> > Anyway, is it possible my problems are related to this issue? |
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> > |
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> > I see that the "Cannot open /dev/ttyS14: device or resource busy" |
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> > message is a common one. And there are almost as many proposed solutions as |
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> > there are instances. There surely would be an easy way to do such a simple |
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> > thing? Nothing works for me. |
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> > |
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> > Alan Davis |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > On 11/28/05, Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net > wrote: |
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> > > |
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> > > John J. Foster wrote: |
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> > > >On Sat, Nov 26, 2005 at 10:20:15PM -0600, Dale wrote: |
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> > > > |
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> > > >>Now wvdial, it dials out, then sits for a minute, then disconnects |
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> > > with |
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> > > >>the error that my password is wrong, which is crap because it is |
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> > > >>correct. I only got wvdial to work once on another rig. It has |
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> > > never |
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> > > >>worked on this one though. Anybody have a clue on that one? I just |
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> > > >>like to have options in case it pours instead of just a little |
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> > > shower. |
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> > > >> |
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> > > >> |
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> > > > |
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> > > >Hi Dale - I had the same problem until I set |
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> > > > |
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> > > >Stupid Mode=yes in /etc/wvdial.conf. All was fine then. |
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> > > > |
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> > > >John |
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> > > > |
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> > > > |
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> > > Thanks for that tip. I'll try that. I like to have as many back-ups |
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> > > as |
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> > > I can get. If it were not for bad luck, I would have no luck at all. |
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> > > Well, there is the exception of my girlfriend. She is the best thing, |
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> > > person, to happen yet. |
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> > > |
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> > > Dale |
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> > > :-) |
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> > > |
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> > > -- |
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> > > To err is human, I'm most certainly human. |
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> > > -- |
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> > > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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