Strange internet problems

[flappix]

Hi @ all,
I've installed ArchLinxARM on my Toshiba AC100. If I launch wifi-menu or run wpa_supplicant directly, WLAN is working, but only as root. I'm not able to access any web address as normal user, even tough I'm joined the network group.
And there's another strange thing: Accessing a web page in a browser like links or chromium as root works, but I'm not able to use ping or curl. Wget works fine...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'ping google.de
ping: unknown host google.de')

If I want to ping my router I get
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'ping 192.168.2.1
socket: Permission denied')

Any ideas how I could fix that?
An anwer would make me happy

[dequis]

Hi there, I was trying to fix this problem myself on my android archarm chroot and found the solution. Turns out that android is more strict on what apps can do with the network, for sandboxing purposes, so there's the kernel setting CONFIG_ANDROID_PARANOID_NETWORK that adds these restrictions.

Basically, the solution is to add these two lines to /etc/group on your archarm.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'inet:x:3003:root
net_raw:x:3004:root')

Then, for each user you want to give internet permission:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'gpasswd -a username inet')

A full list of UIDs/GIDs can be found here: http://android-dls.com/wiki/index.php?t ... s_and_GIDs

The net_raw permission is for low level connections such as the ping program. On arch it's setuid and setgid root, so it should work out of the box for all other users. On android it's setgid net_raw, which works too.

It works perfectly for me for both root and users, but a friend told me he couldn't manage to ping from unprivileged users no matter what kind of setuid/setgid/groups setup. Not really a big issue so we've given up on it.

[flappix]

It works, thank you so much!
I thought I have to use root for my internet applications until the end of my days