dial up: Agere Systems PCI soft modem

[uubeerdude]

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I have a dial up connection and am running suse 10.0 on a dual boot system. I have not been able to connect. Yast has detected the modem and I have it configured as best I can (whether rightly or wrongly, whoinhell am I to know?). Have tried a few dufferent port settings, but don't know where to go from there. It would be great to have the connection because of the need to access information to learn (yep, I am brand spankin' new to this). Going back and forth between windows and linux to get online information is not something that will get me into mensa.

I would like to find step by step instructions that work for configuring the connection. The system is installed and recognizes the modem. When I try to connect with kppp I get " You do not have sufficient permission to run /usr/sbin/pppd. Please make sure that kppp is owned by root and has the SUID bit set."

I don't have the foggiest about most of this and need to learn.

When I try Kinternet I get "Connection to local and remote server fefused. Maybe smppd is not running or you are not a member of the group "dialout. also check the server settings in the dialog "various settings."

Now all of this might be just ducky if I were just the least bit accomplished with SUSE. I need that connection to learn. Can anyone help?

yanbkeeo

[gogalthorp]

When I try Kinternet I get "Connection to local and remote server fefused. Maybe smppd is not running or you are not a member of the group "dialout. also check the server settings in the dialog "various settings."

I think this is telling you what you need to know. You need to add you account to the "dialout" group This may fix kppp also. It seems to be a rights problem.

Start Yast - Security and users - User Managment

then add your account to the dialout group. I bet that works

[devils casper]

set SUID bit of kppp too.

chmod +s /usr/bin/kppp

[uubeerdude]

Please understand that I know very little about linux. I want to be able to connect in order to learn. I do not, for instance, understand what SUID bit means or how & where to put the command code. If it is not realistic that I can get down to being that specific here and be walked through step by step, would someone then please point me to relevant tutorials to get me there? I do not wish to piss anyone off by not trying to resolve things on my own before bothering anyone with elementary questions.

Thanks

[devils casper]

search for Terminal or Konsole in Menu. click on it and execute the command i posted.

[uubeerdude]

Oh. and I did figure out how to add the account to the dialup group, but no help. Still getting the same responses.

[kr4ey]

I have the modem and wireless working on my Acer Aspire 3000 notebook.
Using a Agere AC'97 PCI Modem.
I used the slmodem-2.9.11.20070204.tar.gz file that you can download here:

http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/

Setup instructions are in the readme.txt file.
The only problem I have is, I have to reinstall it after a reboot or shutdown.
Wish I could get it to permanently install.
I am using the kinternet tool.