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PostPosted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 7:44 pm    Post subject: gnome-ppp as a normal user? Reply with quote

Hi,

I hope I'm right here with my question....

I use gnome-ppp on an UMTS card to connect to the internet. Invoking it as root works fine, but when I try to use it as a normal user it gives some errors:

Cannot open /dev/tts/USB0: Device or resource busy


Any ideas?

br
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zcrendel
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 11:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

just add you're self to uucp group and re-login to system
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