[wellylug] modem and power cuts

[Lindsay Hunter]

In the last three weeks, I have had to replace two adsl modems that went 
through such power surges.  May be partially damaged?

L

krjimh at paradise.net.nz wrote:

>Hi,
>Can anyone suggest what my modem is doing. After the power cuts caused by
>lightning last week my modem can't be opened by kppp from any user account.
>
>However it goes ok from root. I have checked to see if anything has changed in
>/etc/groups and nothing has.
>
>I can't really see how config files could be altered anyway. As the modem is
>working fine I presume it is undamaged, so it should be only something to  do
>with permissions?
>
>It's a Knoppix3.3 install which has worked well for over a year now. 5 year old
>Dynalink hardware modem.
>
>Cheers
>
>Jim
>
>
>  
>

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Lindsay Hunter
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