Maxim Wexler wrote: >> >> yoyo > > Thanks for your response. I did some research(ppp documentation is > OLD!) and saved a bunch of likely files across the partition from > ubuntu, and rebooted into gentoo. > > Just for the heck of it I made myself root right from the boot console > and ran pon <isp> without touching anything else, and boom! I was > connected. The only difference from last time was that I ran pon right > from the boot console instead of what I usually do, namely running > startx, opening a terminal making myself root etc. I cannot fathom how > that would make a difference. Can anybody out there in gentoo-world? > Didn't even have to rmmod the wifi and ethx drivers. > > MW >
This brings back nightmares. It's been a while since I used dial-up but this sounds like a permissions issue. Check /etc/group and see if you are in ALL the following groups: tty uucp dialout utmp You can also check the permissions of the ttyS<some number here> to see what it is. Mine is uucp. You shouldn't have to create a group so work with what you got for now. My devices are set to this: root@fireball / # ls -al /dev/ttyS* crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 64 Mar 20 19:01 /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 65 Mar 20 16:12 /dev/ttyS1 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 66 Mar 20 16:12 /dev/ttyS2 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 4, 67 Mar 20 16:12 /dev/ttyS3 root@fireball / # Sometimes pon/poff will need dialout for the program itself and tty to access the ttyS* device. Then that leads to you also needing uucp. Neat huh? Anyway, I suspect you need yourself added to the uucp group. I seem to recall running into this once too. I also had to add myself to utmp but I can recall why. I'm old, don't ask me to remember everything. lol If you have to change anything, don't forget to log out and back in. This is very true if you are logged into KDE. If you forget that, you will drive yourself ding bat crazy. o_O I hope this gets you going. I want this nightmare to end. lol Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
