Use under Ubuntu $ sudo gedit /etc/ppp/pap-secrets Marvs On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 5:41 PM, D Brewer <interscientific@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > > >
