Suse v10 and USER modem

[tyc]

Is there anyone out there who is familiar with Suse v10.0 and how to get that OS to recognize the on-board modem when attempting to access it as a USER?

The dialer being used is KPPP.

I can get it to access the modem while in ROOT and it works perfectly - but NOT when I try to access it as a USER!

I've gone over and over the settings as applicable to a USER and to my knowlege I've tried every setting "in the book" and except for the fact that I can get it to work while in ROOT, I would say the software offered by Suse and/or KPPP is defective but I just don't believe that the people at either of those well established software firms would be dumb enough to offer such basic software - which they knew does not work.

The odds are that there is something I'm doing, have done wrong or haven't done yet; i.e., if it works with ROOT but not as a USER, there has to be a setting(s) I've over looked.

tyc

[gogalthorp]

Is there anyone out there who is familiar with Suse v10.0 and how to get that OS to recognize the on-board modem when attempting to access it as a USER?

The dialer being used is KPPP.

I can get it to access the modem while in ROOT and it works perfectly - but NOT when I try to access it as a USER!

I've gone over and over the settings as applicable to a USER and to my knowlege I've tried every setting "in the book" and except for the fact that I can get it to work while in ROOT, I would say the software offered by Suse and/or KPPP is defective but I just don't believe that the people at either of those well established software firms would be dumb enough to offer such basic software - which they knew does not work.

The odds are that there is something I'm doing, have done wrong or haven't done yet; i.e., if it works with ROOT but not as a USER, there has to be a setting(s) I've over looked.

tyc

Be sure that the user is a member of the dialout group

[the bassinvader]

There are a few things that you'll probably have to do,to start make yourself a member of the uucp group

Then in a konsole......su to root and type

 chmod u+s /usr/bin/rfcomm

The user will need read, write and execute permission in:
kppp and /etc/resolv.conf

And the user set uid box should be checked in;
opt/kde3/bin/kppp

see if you get the problem then.

[kr4ey]

See here.

Using KPPP - SUSE Wiki