Gilles Thank you for your reply. I followed your instructions and ran that command. The file shows correctly in both chap-secrets and pap-secrets.
Can you assist with any further ideas? Thanks again. Roger. >From: "Gilles Espinasse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: speedtouch@ml.free.fr >To: <speedtouch@ml.free.fr> >Subject: [speedtouch] Re: Feisty >Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:20:28 +0200 > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Roger London" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <speedtouch@ml.free.fr> >Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 1:25 AM >Subject: [speedtouch] Feisty > > > > > > Hi there > > > > I am trying to get my Speedtouch modem working with the Feisty Fawn >version > > of Ubuntu. I got the thing working before (with help from here) on >Dapper > > Drake, but that was some time ago and I've lost the advice sent to me. > > > > I have followed the web instructions, cutting and pasting commands to >avoid > > mistakes. Looking at the chap-secrets and pap-secrets files in etc/ppp, >I > > noticed they have a red cross by them. Looking at the properties, it >seems > > that access is denied to them. Could this be part of the problem and, >if > > so, how is this rectified? If this is normal, can anyone suggest where >else > > to look? > > > > Thanks in anticipation! > > > > Roger. > > >I think they may be a symlink to file that may be missing on your machine >To see if they are symlink, do on a console (-l is L lowercase) >ls -l /etc/ppp/*-secrets > >If the files refered in the link (it could be the same real file for >chap-secrets and pap-secrets) does not exist, this command will say that to >you >cat /etc/ppp/*-secrets >If file(s) exist, you will see the content > >Access to the secret file is usually restricted because it contain the >password. You may have to su root. I don't know for Ubuntu. > >Gilles > >Gills > > >Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB >Pour se désinscrire : >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ Got a favourite clothes shop, bar or restaurant? Share your local knowledge http://www.backofmyhand.com Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se désinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
