[NTLUG:Discuss] pppd troubleshooting

[Terry Henderson]

On 7/8/06, . Daniel <xdesign at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Here's the scenario:
>
> I've got this EVDO card from work.  Initially I set it up under Windows.
> It works, so it should be fine here [under Linux] too.  It's not, so I'll
> do my best to detail what I have found.
>
> Upon hot-plugging the PCMCIA device into the machine, the hardware was
> correctly identified and appropriate modules were loaded.  In this case,
> "usbserial" and "airprime."  Two serial devices are created as
> "/dev/ttyUSB0" and "/dev/ttyUSB1" where ttyUSB0 is the modem device.  As
> root, I can talk to the device, but as a user, I cannot.  It would be good
> to be able to talk to it as non-root, but that's fine for now, but it did
> slow my progress for an hour or longer as I had to figure out that it was
> "root access only" before I could gain access to the modem device on
> ttyUSB0.
>
> Once I learned I needed to run all access to /dev/ttyUSB0 as root, I was
> able to run wvdialconf and all that as documented here:
>
> http://www.cs.drexel.edu/~kfu22/evdo/
>
> Pretty much everything works as evidenced by the logs I have attached.
> (Hope I can attach text files with this email, else, I will follow up with
> a second email with cut-n-paste.)  The problem now is that while I can ping
> the gateway, I cannot route beyond that.  My guess is that there might be
> some sort of authentication that isn't being addressed.  But perhaps some
> fresh eyes on the problem could reveal something I haven't yet noticed?
>
>

Try:
/sbin/route add default gw 68.28.177.69