Dale wrote: > OK. Here's my update. I changed the config file, the 50-udev.rules > file, back to the way it was when it was updated. I then added myself > to the uucp group and rebooted. Well, my UPS didn't like that one > bit. So I added nut to the uucp group too. Then I rebooted again. > Everything *appears* to be working fine. Sorry for all the rebooting > but they are serial ports. > > Why did I decide to go and do all this right now. Here is the funny > part. Kppp could access the modem, it could tell it to dial out, it > could connect, even get the DNS servers, but it was NOT going to send > data or accept data like it should. It was like spitting on a four > alarm fire. It would send some but it was just a little bit at a > time. Kopete worked fine though. Go figure. All that was run as a > normal user. To test that this was permission related, I opened a > root Konsole and used wvdial to connect with. The pages loaded like > they should when connected that way. I knew then it was either Kppp > or I still had some lingering permission issues. I suspected the later. > > Lesson of all this, watch those udev updates. They may work 99% of > the time but that 1% can drive you nuts. > > All this because my power went out for about 2 hours. Maybe I need a > bigger UPS. ;-) > > Thanks for all the help. > > Dale > > :D :D :D :D :D > > > > -- > www.myspace.com/dalek1967 >
One more little update. After a while I starting seeing the same thing again. I then remerged Kppp and it has been working for a while now. I'm not sure what change that would have made though. Just thought I would mention it in case someone else has the same issue. Dale :-) :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967
