Re: unable to connect with internal modem under Ubuntu

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Jacques,

Thank you _very_ much for your extensive investigation and solution!  

I haven't figured out how to edit the /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file.  When I access it through the file manager, Ubuntu tells me I don't have the permissions necessary to open the file.  Is this something I need to do via the terminal?  If so, what are the commands I need to use?

I'm new to Linux, so please forgive my ignorance about this.  

Devon


--- On Wed, 12/17/08, Jacques Goldberg <Jacques.Goldberg@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Jacques Goldberg <Jacques.Goldberg@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: unable to connect with internal modem under Ubuntu
> To: "Linmodems" <discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Devon Brewer" <interscientific@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 12:52 PM
> Devon and list:
> this thread was long and I believe that I solved it -
> sufficiently general saga worth being in archive.
> 
> Devon has an HSF modem in his Ubuntu 8.04 box.
> He correctly installed the driver but could not achieve a
> connection.
> I have the same modem on my RedHat modified (aka Scientific
> Linux) in my box.
> I met no problem getting connected first to my University
> then to Devon's ISP http://www.nocharge.com/ with S.L.
> I then loaded my old Ubuntu 7.10 Live CD, installed the
> driver (from the generic file, not the precompiled), from
> Linuxant.
> Either with wvdial or with the Ubuntu 
> System->Administration->Network tool, I immediately
> got connected to my University but experienced the same
> rejection as observed by Devon with his ISP.
> I have no scruple disclosing the username, password and
> phone number of his ISP because they are publicly displayed
> on the Web page quoted above. The username was aptly chosen
> as "guest" by the ISP.
> 
> The debugging option of pppd (syslog) made me find out that
> the cause was a PAP rejection.
> 
> Lo and behold, the file  /etc/ppp/pap-secrets on the Ubuntu
> 7.04 Live CD, and probably every Ubuntu distro, contains a
> block of restricted user id's to which dialling is
> denied. Of course my RedHat based system does not have that
> block.
> 
> Sure enough, "guest" is in the blacklist !!!
> 
> Devon: locate that line in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets , insert a
> # at the beginning to make it ignored by pppd, and let me
> know if you get connected, as I did. I am really eager to
> know that you too can now connect.
> I tried with the Ubuntu network manager above,  not with
> wvdial, because Ubuntu sufficiently mocks Windows in hiding
> things and decides for the user what he wants to do without
> letting him ask, user assumed to be readily dumbed to the
> 200 % level by Microsoft. Simply, I never could find how to
> disable the Ethernet and Wifi interfaces under Ubuntu: you
> disable them, within up to 30 seconds they are back, forcing
> routes and DNS's which you do not want for the analog
> modem connection.
> 
> Jacques
> 
> Jacques


      

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