[ubuntu-in] hello! new to list-- 3 questions

[Mehul Ved]

2009/3/18 suranjan jii <suranjan.suranjan at gmail.com>:
> sending: ATDT#777
> CONNECT
> Carrier detected. Waiting for prompt.
> Don't know what to do! Starting pppd and hoping for the best.
> Starting pppd at Wed Mar 18 17:27:00 2009
> Warning: Could not modify /etc/ppp/pap-secrets: Permission denied
> --> PAP (Password Authentication Protocol) may be flaky.
> Pid of pppd: 6092
> Using interface ppp0
> pppd: [code]
> pppd: [code]
> pppd: [code]
> pppd: [code]
> Disconnecting at Wed Mar 18 17:19:54 2009
> The PPP daemon has died: Authentication error.
> We failed to authenticate ourselves to the peer.
> Maybe bad account or password? (exit code = 19)
>
> So you see, it did not go on line. Could it be that the password is not
> correct? According to the tutorial, it should be the last four digits of the
> phone number, which is what I put in the conf file. But I should add here
> that in Windows, the password and username are both the ENTIRE phone number
> (excluding the first zero). So I tried changing the password to the entire
> phone number in this way, but still I got the same error message as appears
> above.
>
> What do you think can be the problem?

Maybe the phone number is different for VSNL? Since that tutorial is for BSNL

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