[Nottingham] accessing pci bus with kde and mepis

[Sarah Swindell]

Hi,
I'm new to linux (using mepis) and can't work out how to grant myself (as 
user rather than root) access to the pci bus where my sound card and 
internal modem reside. (I can't use the modem as root either, so might have 
not set up Kppp properly)
one of my mates has recommended typing chmod o +wr in the console, but I 
guess the syntax was wrong because it just pointed me to the help menu.
any ideas?
Cheers,
Sarah

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