[clug] Vodafone USB modem connect assistance

[james at quokkamail.com]

James Cherryh wrote:
>> When the modem is now connected, if I open up a console box at the Suse
>> desktop the first thing it says is :
>> bash: /dev/null: Permission denied
>> 
>> repeated about 9 times. Odd. Anyone have any thoughts why that is so?

>This is wrong. /dev/null should look like this:

>[dart] ls -l /dev/null
>crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2007-09-22 05:12 /dev/null


When I reboot, all is fine with /dev/null. But as soon as I connect
using kinternet it all goes to hell. Then when I reboot all is fine
again. 

So it sounds pretty much like some sort of side effect of using
kinternet with this USB modem. 

Very odd.

James