[hcflinux] Re: hcflinux Digest, Vol 2, Issue 17

[JBB]

I connect with KPPP also.  After I connect I just kill
the kdeinit and kppp processes.  ppp keeps running
just fine.

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>    1. only root can access /dev/ttySHCF0 first time
> after	reboot
>       (Richard Leonard)
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> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:57:09 +0100
> From: Richard Leonard
> <richard at sooming.freeserve.co.uk>
> Subject: [hcflinux] only root can access
> /dev/ttySHCF0 first time
> 	after	reboot
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> I have a strange problem. My Conexant HCFPCI modem
> works well, except that after each reboot, I must
> connect as root the first time I try. Thereafter my
> normal user account works OK. 
> 
> I connect using the pon script, which leaving out a
> few options is basically: exec /usr/sbin/pppd call
> ${@:-provider}. Running this as a normal user first
> time after reboot causes pppd to give the error
> "Failed to open /dev/ttySHCF0: No such device". Same
> result from user doing a /usr/sbin/pppd call
> provider. The device is right there, and root can
> use pon to connect through it just fine.
> 
> Oddly, I tried using another front end to pppd, and
> kppp connects perfectly when run as a normal user,
> but I'm trying to avoid kde on this slowish box. 
> 
> 
> Details:
> Libranet 2.8 (libranet's gui dialer, lppp, has the
> same problem as pon)
> Installed the generic tarball
> (hcfpcimodem-0.99lnxtbeta03042700) a couple of
> months back, which compiled fine and ran
> hcfpciconfig without difficulty. Device IDs and so
> on are the same as on the Mandrake 9.1 installation
> on this box, when I used the rpm to install.
> 
> crw-r--r--    1 root     root     240,  64 Sep 19
> 08:00 /dev/ttySHCF0
> -rwsr-x---    1 root     dip        481336 Mar 18 
> 2003 /usr/bin/kppp
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          956 Nov 24 
> 2002 /usr/bin/pon
> -rwsr-xr--    1 root     dip        234504 Nov 24 
> 2002 /usr/sbin/pppd
> 
> I'm a member of dip. Changing the owner and/or group
> of /dev/ttySHCF0 to dip makes no difference.
> 
> I've searched the list archives, googled, read man
> pages, changed permissions, groups and memberships
> every way I can think of, and have got nowhere. I
> simply can't work out why running pon as root works,
> or running kppp as a normal user works, when the
> suid bit on pppd should have the same effect. If
> need be I can keep kppp around, but would prefer not
> to have to. All advice now received with deep
> gratitude, and apologies if there is something
> obvious I have missed.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Richard 
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