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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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Isn't that always the way? When I finally have posted and given up, a new |
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option occurs to me that works! |
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Thank you to everyone who made suggestions. |
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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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> Anyway, is it possible my problems are related to this issue? |
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> I see that the "Cannot open /dev/ttyS14: device or resource busy" message |
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> is a common one. And there are almost as many proposed solutions as there |
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> 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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> Alan Davis |
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> On 11/28/05, Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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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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> > >>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 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 shower. |
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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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> > >Stupid Mode=yes in /etc/wvdial.conf. All was fine then. |
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> > >John |
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> > Thanks for that tip. I'll try that. I like to have as many back-ups 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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> > Dale |
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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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