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By: sandhu

sandhu — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:09:13 +0000

Gourav,

Trying to get AnyData Adm-100c modem to work on Ubuntu 8.04 and getting :

“The PPP daemon has died: A modem hung up the phone (exit code = 16)”

Am stuck for past 3 days.. Has anyone got this working??

Tks,

By: roman

roman — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:17:58 +0000

Hi Gourav after 15 days, I have always the same problem. I have done what u tall me about permissions. sudo su, chmod a- …, u+ … ;
they’re rw for user only for pap-secrets. But I can not connect. A modem hang up the phone exit code = 16. plz, can u help me ?

By: Roman

Roman — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 08:11:03 +0000

Hi Gourav. Merry christmas and happy new year.
I have used Internet many hours, days; without problems. But now, I can not connect anymore.
PPP daemon has died = A modem hang up the phone (exit code = 16). Var/log/messages = warning: secret file /etc/ppp/papsecrets has world and/or group access. Please, can u help me to reconnect ?

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By: Gourav Shah

Gourav Shah — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:14:10 +0000

exit code = 19 indicates the issue with authentication.

check /etc/ppp/pap-secrets and /etc/ppp/chap-secrets files and make sure they are properly configured with your username, password etc.

By: Nikos

Nikos — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:01:15 +0000

Hi Gourav and Roman,
I got a very similar authentication problem that I cannot find a way out. There is no problem connecting to the provider using the same account from XP. Any ideas are welcome and appreciated.
The output follows:

root@ubuntu:/usr/sbin# wvdial
–> WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.60
–> Cannot get information for serial port.
–> Initializing modem.
–> Sending: ATZ
ATZ
OK
–> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2
ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2
OK
–> Modem initialized.
–> Sending: ATDT
–> Waiting for carrier.
ATDT
CONNECT 64000/115200 PPP
–> Carrier detected. Waiting for prompt.
~[7f]}#@!}!m} }5}#}%B#}%}%}&o[19])A}”}&} } } } .)~
–> PPP negotiation detected.
–> Starting pppd at Tue Dec 9 11:46:46 2008
–> Pid of pppd: 12404
–> Using interface ppp0
–> pppd: ��
–> pppd: ��
–> pppd: ��
–> pppd: ��
–> pppd: ��
–> Disconnecting at Tue Dec 9 11:46:55 2008
–> The PPP daemon has died: Authentication error.
–> We failed to authenticate ourselves to the peer.
–> Maybe bad account or password? (exit code = 19)
–> man pppd explains pppd error codes in more detail.
–> I guess that’s it for now, exiting
–> The PPP daemon has died. (exit code = 19)

By: Gourav Shah

Gourav Shah — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:59:00 +0000

Roman,

115200 is alright. that is the connection speed used for negotiations, but you wont actually get that speed. the actual bandwidth that you’ll get with this connection will be much lower than 115Kbps. even if you change those parameters, you wont see much difference.

if you want to check your bandwidth, use this tool http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest . It would give you an accurate information on download and upload speeds. You could ofcourse try bumping the connection speed to the above numbers, and let me know if that really boosts your speed , chances of which are rare in my opinion.

By: Roman

Roman — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:47:16 +0000

Gourav, it’s allright ! Now, working without any problem.

Can I put the speed up ?
Bauds, are they link to the speed ?
I wrote Bauds : 115200
Can I write : 460800
230400, is it my real speed ?

By: Gourav Shah

Gourav Shah — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 08:45:51 +0000

her is the problem,

————
WvDial: Warning:
Could not modify /etc/ppp/pap-secrets: Permission denied
WvDial: –>
PAP (Password Authentication Protocol) may be flaky.
WvDial: Warning:
Could not modify /etc/ppp/chap-secrets: Permission denied
WvDial: –>
——————-

/etc/ppp/chap-secrets and /etc/ppp/pap-secrets do not have permission to be written by anyone except root. you could verify it using ‘ls -l /etc/ppp ‘

what you need to do is to run wvdial with root permissions, preferably using sudo,

e.g.

sudo wvdial /etc/wvdial.conf

alternately, you could change permissions of these files using chmod and make it writable by other users, which is dangerous though. if you do this, you should revert back permissions once you dial wvdial for the first time.

this can be done as,

1. sudo su

2. chmod a+rw /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
chmod a+rw /etc/ppp/chap-secrets

3. wvdial /etc/wvdial.conf

4.
chmod a-rw /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
chmod u+rw /etc/ppp/pap-secrets

By: roman

roman — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:56:24 +0000

It’s ok, i have advanced. You can erase my last comment.
Now, i have this problem.
Following the 6th comment, I wrote wvdial.conf

When I do : wvdial/etc/wvdial.conf, the result is :

rom@rom-laptop:~$ wvdial /etc/wvdial.conf
WvDial:
WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.56
WvDial:
Warning: section [Dialer /etc/wvdial.conf] does not exist in wvdial.conf.

WvModem: Cannot get information for serial port.
WvDial: Initializing modem.

WvDial: Sending: ATZ
WvDial Modem: ATZ
WvDial Modem: OK
WvDial:
Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
WvDial Modem: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2
+FCLASS=0
WvDial Modem: OK
WvDial: Modem initialized.
WvDial:
Sending: ATDT#777
WvDial: Waiting for carrier.
WvDial Modem:
ATDT#777
WvDial Modem: CONNECT 230400
WvDial: Carrier detected.
Waiting for prompt.
WvDial: Don’t know what to do!
Starting pppd and hoping for the best.
WvDial:
Starting pppd at Sat Nov 22 14:29:16 2008
WvDial: Warning:
Could not modify /etc/ppp/pap-secrets: Permission denied
WvDial: –>
PAP (Password Authentication Protocol) may be flaky.
WvDial: Warning:
Could not modify /etc/ppp/chap-secrets: Permission denied
WvDial: –>
CHAP (Challenge Handshake) may be flaky.
WvDial: Pid of pppd: 6937
WvDial:
Using interface ppp0
WvDial: pppd: ��[06][08]��[06][08]
WvDial:
pppd: ��[06][08]��[06][08]
WvDial: pppd: ��[06][08]��[06][08]
WvDial: pppd:
��[06][08]��[06][08]
WvDial: Disconnecting at Sat Nov 22 14:29:26 2008
WvDial:
The PPP daemon has died: Authentication error.
WvDial:
We failed to authenticate ourselves to the peer.
WvDial:
Maybe bad account or password? (exit code = 19)
WvDial:
man pppd explains pppd error codes in more detail.
WvDial:
I guess that’s it for now, exiting
WvDial:
The PPP daemon has died. (exit code = 19)

Is it a problem from my account registration ? or from anywhere else ?