[NTLUG:Discuss] pppd troubleshooting

[Wayne Walker]

Once you have it up, run in another window "ping -n -i 10
www.google.com".   Leave it running the whole time you are up.  it will
keep Sprint from dropping the connection.

Wayne

On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 08:11:03AM -0500, Terry Henderson wrote:
> 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
> 
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