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Bug 76403
| Summary: | Modem Lights & Dialer applet fails to show connection when connecting using Network Device Control to dial | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | eitelman |
| Component: | gnome-applets | Assignee: | Mark McLoughlin <markmc> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | clint |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Triaged |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:50:00 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 79579 | ||
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Description
eitelman
2002-10-21 13:22:05 UTC
The default configuration of the modem lights applet does not work with Internet Configuration Wizard setups for two reasons : 1) The commands to bring the modem up and down (ifup and ifdown) are not in the user's path 2) The lock file that is generated does not have the same name as the default (LCK..modem) To rectify this: 1) Change the commands to /sbin/ifup and /sbin/ifdown 2) Check your /var/lock directory while your modem is connected. Look for a file starting LCK.. (eg LCK..ttyS1). Change the lock file name (under Advanced) to match this file name - the lights will work Many thanks. The applet now functions fine. I had picked up the /sbin/ifup & /sbin/ifdown problem and fixed it. But I completely blew it on the var/lock/lck..ttyS4 (in this case). Since this is not exactly a bug, but a configuration issue, I don't know what to do about the Change State or Resolution box below. I'd be happy to change it to whatever you want it to be if you wish. Thanks again. Steve Eitelman The defaults here should be better. "The defaults here should be better." What does that mean precisely? I just beat my head against the wall as to why I couldn't dial out thinking it was permissions related when it was the default config setting being incorrect. We have a lot of dialup users... will this be errataed soon??? No, not likely to be an errata. "The defaults should be better" means exactly that, I don't understand the question. "The default should be better" means this... Redhat has made a lot of effort with Redhat 8 so that things just work when you install them. In this case they didn't - I wondered if the Redhat Network Device Control panel and the modem lights applets were conflicting applications. so, to make the defaults better 1) put the full path to ifup and ifdown in, rather than just the commands, and 2) figure out some way of getting the right lock file name. If this just isn't possible, then put instructions into the help file? Clint *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69971 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |