Hi Mark, Thanks...
On 10 Sep, Earl Brannigan wrote:
on /dev/modem to allow users rw access but I don't trust this
setting....
any ideas on how to enable wvdial/ppp for all users.
Yes: add users to the dialout group and stop screwing the permissions about... that said, occasionally you do need to change the group of the modem device. pppconfig/pon/poff are usually quite good, by the way.
wheyhey, didn't think to look for a dialout group - a debian only thing I now discover from the wvdial FAQ..... which also recommends changing the permissions on the device or setuid the program (not my preference). No I think the dialout group is a goodie.
- Adding menu items to gnome doesn't work. Programs are shown
in the menu
editor but don't appear in the menus themselves. Most (but not
all) gnome/x
apps I install from apt-get do not show up in the menus (hence the menu-editor).
update-menus should be run by the apps as they install themselves, but often don't. That is a low-priority bug report matter, I think.
yeah, I think a little work here on my part getting into the deeper bits of gnome is in order. I think a little scripty type thing that looks at binaries in a certain directory and writes the correct entries to whatever necessary file - ... this is a thinky one, AFAIK there is a straightforward text file that lists the menu items, command lines and icon files for gnome.
.xsession or update-alternatives for x-window-manager and x-session-manager
cheers, will look into some more...
man update-modules should explain some things.
thats the thing... will look.... having been through man modules-conf, modutils, modprobe, mods and rockers ... sorry got a little wayward.
binutils or bin86, maybe. You are using kernel-package's make-kpkg, yes? I'm sure you are, as it's in the manuals...
Again, packages I didn't really know about (though I know binutils is installed, saw it in dselect.. also I think it was a dependency for the kernel-source). just printed off the debian kernel build instructions from debian.org., lets have some fun! Cheers Earl