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aa@notreal.zip.com.au (Sarch) wrote:

>On Mon, 14 Dec 1998 10:30:48 +1100, "Graeme Evans" <gevans@vic.bigpond.net.au>
>wrote:
>
>>I have installed Redhat Linux from the APC pocket book CD. I am having
>>difficulties getting my modem to connect properly. It is connected to COM4
>>and I have been able to successfully configure Minicom to connect with a BBS
>>which I belong to. I assume from this that Linux can find the modem OK,
>>which can be a problem if it is on other than COM 1 or COM 2.
>>
>>The problem is that I have used Control panel (from an X window) to run the
>>modem configuration setup, and the modem will not dial. I am using the PAP
>>option, which always worked well with W3.11 and W95. (My ISP is Telstra
>>Bigpond, and IP addresses are set dynamically.)
>
>I couldn't get the "Control Panel / Modem Configuration" to detect my modem as
>well. But logging in as root and then running the Control Panel got everything
>working (under your normal user account, use "su" in an Xterm window to log in
>as root and run the command "control-panel&"). Running the Control Panel this
>way made everything work. I'm not really sure if this solves your problem.
>
>One problem I have is being unable to dialup my modem by using the "netcfg&"
>program when logged in as a normal user. But if I load it up the same way as
>above using su, etc, I can get my modem to dial up to my ISP, etc. Anybody
>know how to fix this so I can use "netcfg&" as a normal user and get my modem
>to connect to my ISP? I think it may have something to do with a few scripts
>in the pppd(?) directory not having access permission to non-root users? I'm
>using Redhat from the APC Pocketbook.
>
>Sarch
>
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To make modem accessible to "users" look in netcfg I think it's under
the interface tab somewhere and tick checkbox for all users.
In the meantime I do have a problem all of my own which only manifests
itself after kernel compilation. I cannot access ppp, it tells me it's
not compiled into kernel but I'm damn sure I did under "make xconfig".
Have gone back to the old kernel that's prior to compilation and it
works fine, it has to be something I overlooked. I had that same
problem in RH5.0 but I forget what I did to overcome that. Any help
would be appreciated. Actually I don't really need to compile but it
irks me that I can't,
Regards
Dietrich
PS BTW running RH5.01kernel 2.0.34-0.6