Re: NM with CMOTECH CNU-680 / ice.net D-50

[Peter Åstrand <astrand lysator liu se>]

On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Dan Williams wrote:

> > Selecting "Auto CDMA" in NM fails. I guess this is because no username or
> > password is provided. For ice.net, both the username and password is
> > public, "cdma" and "cdma", but of course NM doesn't know this? It does
> > figure our the phone number (#777) automatically, though.
>
> Jump into the connection editor (/usr/bin/nm-connection-editor) and add
> the username and password for the "auto cdma" connection.  Does it work
> then?

Assuming that this is the same as right-click, select "Edit connections" 
and creating a new connection under "Mobile Broadband": No, this does not 
work. I was trying to say that:


> > The problem is, manually creating a Mobile Broadband connection doesn't
> > work either. See log below. Any ideas? I'm using Fedora9.

Best regards,
Peter Åstrand

> > Jun  7 20:22:46 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ttyACM0) starting connection 'ice.net'
> > Jun  7 20:22:46 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  (ttyACM0): device state change: 3 -> 4
> > Jun  7 20:22:46 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ttyACM0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
> > Jun  7 20:22:46 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ttyACM0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
> > Jun  7 20:22:46 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ttyACM0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
> > Jun  7 20:22:46 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  Connected, Woo!
> > Jun  7 20:22:46 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ttyACM0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
> > Jun  7 20:22:46 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ttyACM0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
> > Jun  7 20:22:46 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  (ttyACM0): device state change: 4 -> 5
> > Jun  7 20:22:46 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  Starting pppd connection
> > Jun  7 20:22:46 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ttyACM0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
> > Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy pppd[3620]: Plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.4/nm-pppd-plugin.so loaded.
> > Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
> > Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy pppd[3620]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
> > Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy pppd[3620]: Using interface ppp0
> > Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy pppd[3620]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyACM0
> > Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy NetworkManager: <WARN>  impl_ppp_manager_need_secrets(): Cleared secrets, but setting didn't need any secrets.
> > Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy pppd[3620]: Unable to obtain CHAP password for sandy.lkpg.cendio.se on pdsn from plugin
> > Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy pppd[3620]: No CHAP secret found for authenticating us to pdsn
> > Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy pppd[3620]: CHAP authentication failed: Illegal user or password.
> > Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy pppd[3620]: CHAP authentication failed
> > Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy pppd[3620]: Connection terminated.
> > Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  (ttyACM0): device state change: 5 -> 9
> > Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  Marking connection 'ice.net' invalid.
> > Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (ttyACM0) failed.
> > Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  (ttyACM0): device state change: 9 -> 3
> > Jun  7 20:22:47 sandy NetworkManager: <info>  (ttyACM0): deactivating device.
> > Jun  7 20:22:48 sandy pppd[3620]: Exit.
> >
> > When using wvdial, the log is much shorter:
> >
> > Jun  7 20:25:12 sandy pppd[3907]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0
> > Jun  7 20:25:12 sandy pppd[3907]: Using interface ppp0
> > Jun  7 20:25:12 sandy pppd[3907]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyACM0
> > Jun  7 20:25:15 sandy pppd[3907]: CHAP authentication succeeded: Welcome to pdsn.
> > Jun  7 20:25:15 sandy pppd[3907]: CHAP authentication succeeded
> > Jun  7 20:25:15 sandy kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module registered
> > Jun  7 20:25:16 sandy pppd[3907]: local  IP address 91.149.34.104
> > Jun  7 20:25:16 sandy pppd[3907]: remote IP address 91.149.32.32
> > Jun  7 20:25:16 sandy pppd[3907]: primary   DNS address 213.248.100.54
> > Jun  7 20:25:16 sandy pppd[3907]: secondary DNS address 213.248.83.34
> >
> > Best regards,
> > /Peter ??strand <astrand lysator liu se>
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/Peter Åstrand <astrand lysator liu se>