[wplug] Need a Suse guru

[Robert E. Coutch]

The only thing about SuSE has been USB permissions lately.
Used to be anything you plugged in and it detected was good to go.
Now, some USB devices get the permission of the current users while others 
have to be accessed by root.

I haven't taken the time yet to work this out yet but wanted to warn you in 
case you run into this this problem.


I've been running SuSE since version 8.something and currently use 11.0, 11.2 
and 11.4 on three different machines.

-Rob



On Tuesday 10 May 2011 09:55:18 pm Ted Rodgers wrote:
> I looked real quick and there's  two quick question:
> 
> 1) What provider are you using the modem with, I'm seeing reports of
> Verizon and ATT users both (at least).
> 2) Which desktop or network device manager do you prefer or use?
> 
> I ask about the device manager because I'm seeing (what I see) as
> mixed support for the device across distros and also across some
> network device managers.  For example, support under Ubuntu Hardy
> varied ranging from "works out of the box" under gnome-ppp to "I need
> to edit a file" if using NetworkManager
> (/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-modem.fdi) in order
> to add some usb ids.  (Why isn't update-usbids not picking that up on
> a common device?)
> 
> The support for the device depends on the usb-acm driver.  Suse 11.4
> shouldn't have a problem detecting the deivce at all since the module
> isn't an obscure rarely-included one and neither are the module's
> deps.  The driver provides a /dev/ttyUSB0 device node that you your
> favorite network configuration tool should be able to use as a modem.
> The other fields needed for device to connect depend on your carrier.
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