On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Kevin Farmer wrote: >Hi All. > >I am fairly new to Linux. I have my modem configured and working but I >cannot figure out how to get Mozilla to automatically activate the modem >when it is launched. Right now I have to activate and deactivate the >modem by going to: System Tools --> Network Device Control. Also, when I think what you need is "Dial on Demand" http://open.nit.ca/wvdial/WvDial-DialD-FAQ.html >I run wvdial at the prompt (both as a root and as a normal user) I get >the error message that the section [Dialer Defaults] does not exist in >wvdial.conf and I don't know what those are. Have you run "wvdialconf" > >My modem belongs to group uucp and has read and write permissions only >for the owner and for that group. I have tried changing the permissions >to allow "others" to read, write and execute the modem but that stops >Mozilla from launching cleanly (and seems to add a phantom modem to the How is Mozilla interacting with the modem? Is there some new feature in Mozilla that does this? An URL would be greatly appreciated. >From my notes of what I had to do to get wvdial to work: You may want to add the following to /etc/console.perms in the #Device classes section: <modem>=/etc/wvdial.conf /dev/modem /dev/ttyS* And the following in the #Permission definitions section: <console> 0660 <modem> 0660 root And then touch an empty file into /etc/security/console.apps for wvdial: touch /etc/security/console.apps/wvdial I never really reviewed this for sanity (no doubt someone can correct me), but if my notes are correct this is what it took to get wvdial to work as I expected. HTH, Oisin Feeley -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
