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On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Message from Steven
> ===================
> Sindi wrote:
> > I posted a summary of what you need to do
> > in order to dial, use rxvt, etc. as user.
> > It was not easy.  You have to hang up before
> > rebooting or shutting down or ttyS* reverted
> > to not being usable by 'user'.
>
> That's simply fixed by chmod-ing your ttyS
> in your system startup script.  That will
> automatically set your ttyS to the correct
> value.

I did that for a while until Karolis figured out what was causing the 
problem, using strace.

> > I have no experience setting up broadband
>
> AFAIK, it's just like setting up a network
> connection (insmod, ifconfig, route add).
> That's for network connections to the
> broadband router -- USB connections to
> broadband routers are very different
> (and should be avoided).

Have you set up broadband and used it as 'user' in BL3?
You would need to insert the ethernet modules in rc.

udchcp and ifconfig (busybox) seem to be executable by user, but would it 
be simpler for the user to use one of them in rc?  ifconfig if each 
computer had its own address or udhcpc if not?

> > Suggest webmail.
>
> Why?  BL3 has the sylpheed package (which I
> use daily) and Opera has a built-in mail client.

People are already familiar with webmail.

> Cheers,
> Steven