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FS#7860 - external modem not recognized by the system

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Gour (gour) - Monday, 20 August 2007, 19:15 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Tuesday, 21 August 2007, 19:38 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08 Don't Panic
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
When I attempt to setup my modem with gnome-ppp, it reports that system cannot detect the modem.
I experience the same thing described in the following forum thread:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=35669

and can confirm that it happens with two machines - both running x86_64 with 2.6.22.1-4
kernel. Tomorrow I'll try to build my own 2.6.21 kernel and see whether it works with it as mentioned in the thread above.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.
Here is dmesg.log in the attachment.


Steps to reproduce:
   dmesg.log (19.9 KiB)
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Tuesday, 21 August 2007, 19:38 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Gour (gour) - Tuesday, 21 August 2007, 05:08 GMT
Hi!

After some more research it looks that the problems are due to permission on /etc/resolv.conf, if. after I started gnome-ppp as root, modem is recognized :-)

So, it seems that bug report is invalid, ie. it does not have anything with kernel problem, although I'm not sure what changed that forum user could access the modem in 2.6.21.

Sincerely,
Gour
Comment by Gour (gour) - Tuesday, 21 August 2007, 08:24 GMT
Hi!

Let me just inform you that the bug can be closed - I resolved the issue by following wiki (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Allow_users_to_dial_with_wvdial) and combining "Using a dialout group" & "Using sudo" sections (following just 'sudo' section did not help :-(


Sincerely,
Gour

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