I am using Turbolinux4.0 (quite similar to
RH 6.0, I think) on a Sharp Mebius A445 laptop.
I would appreciate your advice on a ppp permissions
problem. I have searched for the answer in various
places but haven't seen my mention of my symptoms
(scary).
as user, the ifup-ppp ifcfg-ppp0 command from
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
failed with these errors:
/var/run/ppp-ppp0.dev (no permission)
/dev/modem (no permission)
name options (no permission)
the ifcfg-ppp0 script has
userctl=yes in its settings.
root also has some problems dialing.
it succeeds but then it seems that
the modem is not being reset for
the next usage.
this happens with
cu -l as well.
I tried some things that I had read here and there, e.g.
* made a symbolic link ln -s /usr/sbin/pppd /usr/bin/pppd
and edited ifup-ppp to use that. did a chown root.root usr/sbin/pppd
and chmod u+s /usr/sbin/pppd before the making the symbolic link.
* chown root.wheel /var/run
chown root.wheel /dev/ttyS1 (and /dev/modem) .
then added the user name to the wheel group.
My PCMCIA card is working with my present setup (for
a change) but it is taking up IRQ 3 and 4. cat /proc/interrupts
reveals that it uses IRQ 3 when I plug in a PC card. Could this
be part of the problem, I wonder.
is it impossible to connect ppp in the "old" way, that is
with ppp-on, ppp-on-dialer and all that? I noticed that
/usr/sbin/pppd has only one or two lines of code pointing to the
scripts in etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.
also, ifup ppp0 failed as both root and user, but only gives
"script failed" as an error message. Any way of getting
them to be a bit more verbose?
Thank you in advance.
Tony Laszlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jiyugaoka, Tokyo)
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