[NTLUG:Discuss] pppd troubleshooting

[. Daniel]

>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
>
I was able to see the attachments in the message I sent previously.  The 
output of my route command illustrated that my default route was set to the 
gateway.  The traceroute output also showed that up to four other IP 
addresses appeared as well, though I did not attempt to ping them.  But 
yes, the default route was set appropriately.