Quoting Ken Januski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Sorry to be sending this via Outlook but all of a sudden I can't use wvdial > in Debian. It's been working successfully for me for about 4 months. Then > this morning I typed in: wvdial, and got this response: > > "Cannot open /dev/modem : permission denied".
This comes up regularly. For reasons best known to itself, wvdial needs group write permission for the modem. It usually gets this ok, but not if it killed the previous pppd session too quickly for pppd to restore the permissions (bug #85709). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
