[Gloucs]SuSE and the Internet

[Francis Barton]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 11:24:27AM +0100, jim_ashford at lineone.net wrote:
> 
> Hi Guys
> I have just installed SUSE 9.1on my new AJP laptop (made by Clevo in Taiwan),
> and I am having trouble connecting to the Internet.

> My configuration log says I have a device at /dev/ttySLO, but my connection
> log says the ppd[0] Failed to open /dev/ttySLO: No such device or address.
> Now will I confess to being confused, surely I ether have a /dev/ttySLO
> or I do not, I am hoping somebody out there will have some idea of what
> is going on and how to fix it.


This sounds like a permissions error to me.

Can you email us the results of the following commands:

ls -l /dev/ttySL0

groups

This will tell us whether you have permissions set right on your machine 
for you to dial out on the modem.

This can be easily fixed. It may alternatively be permissions on 
/etc/wvdial.conf or another file in /etc/ppp/ that is causing the 
problem, but let's try the modem device permissions first!

Francis.