----- 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]
