[Sderby] usb modem and SUSE 8.1

[nfmartin@talkgas.net]

Thanks James for the tip about MODEM but it didn't make ant 
difference.  Logging as root or a user doesn't make any difference either.




At 12:54 27/02/03 +0000, you wrote:


>Probably can't help much as I've never used kinternet (or SUSE
>come to that), but -
>
>Does kinternet consistently fail when run both as root and under
>a standard id?
>
>If you know the device name of your modem, it might be worth
>setting MODEM to this before starting kinternet to see what
>happens, ie:
>
>     export MODEM=/dev/whatever
>     kinternet
>
>.. it's quite likely that /dev/modem is symlinked to the modem
>device, so if you aren't sure, try using that.
>
>James
>
>
>
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