Devon, Open the file with $ sudo gedit /etc/ppp/pap-secrets This should allow you to open the file and edit it accordingly. Regards, Antonio --- On Wed, 12/17/08, D Brewer <interscientific@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: D Brewer <interscientific@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: unable to connect with internal modem under Ubuntu > To: discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 5:41 PM > 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
