On Friday 23 April 2004 17:38, Douglas Royds wrote: > Thanks Christopher > > I'll try out your various suggestions. > > I was running minicom via sudo, i.e.: > sudo minicom -s You use sudo to run things you have to have the config of sudo set up correctly. It's really intended to allow a set of users to have access to a defined subset of the programs for which a user has to have root privileges. to run a program as the root user either log in as root or say:-
su -c program # fairly obviously you put the lame of the program you want to run instead of the work 'program'. :-) You will then have to enter the root user's password. > but I didn't really know what to do once I was in there. If everything is working ok you should see a string of at commands just as soon as minicom is started, followed by 'OK' on the next line accros the screen. If the characters pop up one by one or small groups taking a few seconds then something is wrong. > This is a laptop, Ah, Now I understand why it's so desirable to get said modem to work. I did get one of them to go sometime last year, and I notice that the driver is under development. So there is a pretty good chance that it can be made to go. > so it's geographically located wherever I want! I live > in Opawa and work at Tait (near the airport). Were there mutterings of a > meeting in May sometime? I'm planning to come along in any case. That's good. Not out in the back-blocks somewhere. I'm sure one of us will be able to help you to get it to go. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
