On Thursday 01 Oct 2009 01:02:08 Donn Washburn wrote:

On 09/30/2009 05:24 PM, Peter Nikolic wrote:

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Hi .

Laptop just updated via zypper dup all seems fine so far apart from umtsmon will not see the usb device an Huawei E220 modem when logged in as my user but if i log in as root it sees it and works fine so it seems a permission problem as opposed to the PPP problem i had previously hints please on what i need to change to get permissions right to use the thing as user .

Pete .

Hey Peter aka friend of Sid Boyce;

It used to be a ppp problem with modems. they were not setting the "other" part. Also make sure you are part of the group

Hi Don yes i used to have pppd problems with 11.1 never could get it to work with 10.3 and 11.0 no problem at all I'll have to go digging around see what and who things belong to as i say it is fine as root which is a "" dumb stupid state of affairs"" and the sort of thing you would think would be checked on by packagers / devs before it is poked out , After all everyone keeps going on Dont run as root because of the dangers to both your system and the data within yet here we go a piece of software that will NOT DO ITS JOB UNLESS RUN AS ROOT ( and guess what folks like it or not i am shouting ) because this is a fundemental cockup of the first degree . Pete .