Solved! [Re: Modem light's won't show traffic]

[Mariano Draghi]

>>
>>>On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:47:51PM -0300, Mariano Draghi wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>I'd like to know how to setup the modemlights applet and/or ifup|ifdown 
>>>>scripts so an _ordinary_ user (i.e. not root) can have the traffic shown 
>>>>in the applet.
>>>>
>>>>[ ... snip ... ]
>>>
>>>What I would do is make ifup and ifdown SUID root. That works for me.
>>
>>Sorry, It doesn't make any difference.
>>Please, note that I CAN start up / shutdown de interface as a normal 
>>user, the problem is that the lights don't flash, and the traffic is not 
>>shown.
>>[ ... snip ... ]
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>-- 
>>Mariano
> 
> First I thought that my modem lights was doing 
> what you describe. That is the top window stays at zero most of the time.
> But if you generate network traffic you will see that the register
> changes giving non-zero values. For example when typing this mail the
> register is at zero when I am not typing. Are you sure this is not the
> behavior that you are seeing?

Yes, I'm (was) sure ;)
The problem was pritty silly: I had a wrong "device" in the advanced tab 
(the field above the name of the lock file). I had "modem" in it, and 
the correct value (in my case) is "ppp0".
Now it work perfect! Green light while I'm connected, and the traffic is 
shown.

-- 
Mariano