[Nottingham] accessing pci bus with kde and mepis

[Sarah Swindell]

Cheers for the help with this - I believe I can now access the soundcard and 
modem as user as well as root.
The modem is 'ready' when I try and dial out (it was not ready or busy 
before) with KPPP, but takes a long time (forever?) to initialise.
>From looking on Linuxquestions.org (newbie page), I've got the idea it's 
because I've got an onboard LAN card (disabled through the BIOS) and this is 
confusing KPPP. I might well be wrong.

any ideas how to encourage KPPP into initialising the modem (it's an 
internal Rockwell HCF 56K data fax RTAD modem - I've matched the setup 
details that win98 has given me about the modem to put into KPPP)

ls -l /dev|grep modem     gives me:
lrwxrwxrwx l root root 9 2004-0221 05.24 modem -> /dev/tty0

Cheers
Sarah
(surely I'm not the only woman on NLUG's mailing list?)

>From: Philip Scott <pgs31 at cam.ac.uk>
>Reply-To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
>To: nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: Re: [Nottingham] accessing pci bus with kde and mepis
>Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 21:16:23 +0000
>
>Heyho
>
>You can't (As far as I am aware) grant yourself access to the entire pci 
>bus
>in one fell swoop, you can however, grant users or groups access to 
>specific
>devices using chmod or chown.
>
>Hello There!
>
>I _girl_! On the LUG? My word, the news is spreading! :)
>
>If you only need it to work for one user (lets call him jimbob), the 
>easiest
>way is to make yourself the owner of the device you want to access. It
>depends what your modem is called, but
>
>chown jimbob /dev/modem
>
>Should work. If it doesn't, look at what /dev/modem points to:
>
>ls -l /dev|grep modem
>
>e.g. with an intel HaM modem, I see it points to /dev/dsp so
>
>chown jimbob /dev/ham
>
>works nicely.
>
>As for sound, if your using OSS,
>chown jimbob /dev/dsp
>chown jimbob /dev/mixer
>
>should do the trick - with alsa, try
>chown jimbob /dev/sound/*
>
>Of course, the proper way to do things would be to set up a group for all 
>the
>people you want to be able to access specific devices - chgrp the devices 
>to
>that particular group and chmod g+rwx /dev/whatever to give members of that
>group full access to it.
>
>hope this helps,
>
>Regards,
>	Philip
>
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