Huawei E220 wvdial setup. [Solved]

[mae]

Hi Friends,

I have found various posts relating to E220 setup with wvdial but none specifically address my error?? received.

The PC in question runs Hardy 8.04

Here is the message recieved when I run "wvdial" in konsole. It looks fine to me but still I cannot connect?

--> Modem initialized.
--> Sending: ATDT*99#
--> Waiting for carrier.
ATDT*99#
CONNECT
--> Carrier detected. Starting PPP immediately.
--> Starting pppd at Fri Apr 10 16:49:25 2009
--> Warning: Could not modify /etc/ppp/pap-secrets: Permission denied
--> --> PAP (Password Authentication Protocol) may be flaky.
--> Warning: Could not modify /etc/ppp/chap-secrets: Permission denied
--> --> CHAP (Challenge Handshake) may be flaky.
--> Pid of pppd: 9078
--> Using interface ppp0
--> pppd: `�[06][08]`�[06][08][10]�[06][08]
--> pppd: `�[06][08]`�[06][08][10]�[06][08]
--> pppd: `�[06][08]`�[06][08][10]�[06][08]
--> pppd: `�[06][08]`�[06][08][10]�[06][08]
--> pppd: `�[06][08]`�[06][08][10]�[06][08]
--> pppd: `�[06][08]`�[06][08][10]�[06][08]
--> Disconnecting at Fri Apr 10 16:50:03 2009
--> The PPP daemon has died: A modem hung up the phone (exit code = 16)
--> man pppd explains pppd error codes in more detail.
--> Try again and look into /var/log/messages and the wvdial and pppd man pages for more information.
--> Auto Reconnect will be attempted in 160 seconds
--> Cannot get information for serial port.
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: ATZ
ATZ
OK
--> Modem initialized.

I would appreciate any help in this regard......

[ventper]

Re: Huawei E220 wvdial setup.

hi mae.
first, i'm sorry but i don have any experience with your modem.
But i DO remember seeing someone on the ubuntuforums saying that he got his working.
so a search on ubu, wow so many results 250.

then a look for help documents and i found this;
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Di...to/Huawei/E220

[mae]

Re: Huawei E220 wvdial setup.

Thank you ventper,

I had look and tried the advice given (or tried to figure it out in my own way), now I get the following and still not able to connect.

--> 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 +FCLASS=0
ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
OK
--> Modem initialized.
--> Sending: ATDT*99#
--> Waiting for carrier.
ATDT*99#
CONNECT
--> Carrier detected. Starting PPP immediately.
--> Starting pppd at Sat Apr 11 14:34:54 2009
--> Warning: Could not modify /etc/ppp/pap-secrets: Permission denied
--> --> PAP (Password Authentication Protocol) may be flaky.
--> Warning: Could not modify /etc/ppp/chap-secrets: Permission denied
--> --> CHAP (Challenge Handshake) may be flaky.
--> Pid of pppd: 8195
--> Using interface ppp0
--> pppd: ��[06][08]��[06][08]
--> pppd: ��[06][08]��[06][08]
--> pppd: ��[06][08]��[06][08]
--> pppd: ��[06][08]��[06][08]
--> pppd: ��[06][08]��[06][08]
--> pppd: ��[06][08]��[06][08]
--> Disconnecting at Sat Apr 11 14:34:57 2009
--> The PPP daemon has died: A modem hung up the phone (exit code = 16)
--> man pppd explains pppd error codes in more detail.
--> Try again and look into /var/log/messages and the wvdial and pppd man pages for more information.
--> Auto Reconnect will be attempted in 5 seconds
--> Cannot get information for serial port.
--> Initializing modem.
--> Sending: ATZ
ATZ
OK
--> Sending: ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 &C1 &D2 +FCLASS=0
OK
--> Modem initialized.

[ventper]

Re: Huawei E220 wvdial setup.

did u check this guy? http://ske.sourceforge.net/html/proj...uawei_tre.html

i don what else to tell ya, as i don have this hardware myself.
the wiki page from the ubuntu link shows a long list of distros.
it must be doable.

/blush
/blushoff

[mae]

Re: Huawei E220 wvdial setup.

Thks ventper,

Are trying a few more things, will let you know of outcome..

[mae]

Re: Huawei E220 wvdial setup.

Upgraded to Kubuntu 9.04 in the hope that it would resolve my problem.

Still not working. Getting desperate, if I can not get this to work I will have to un-convert the user from Linux back to windoZe.

Is there anyone who can help?

[flarson]

Re: Huawei E220 wvdial setup.

pppd is not running as root and can not read your *-secrets files to get your password.

[mae]

Re: Huawei E220 wvdial setup.

This is a for pre-paid sim card, there is no password or username, do I simply leave blank?

[flarson]

Re: Huawei E220 wvdial setup.

That info would come from whoever sold you the card. I expect pppd will fail if it can not read the files anyway.

[mae]

Re: Huawei E220 wvdial setup. [Solved]

At last I was able to connect via Huawei E220 modem.

The followings was changes I made.

- Updated E220 Firmware via Web.
- Inserted a new sim card with additional airtime. (I was not sure if the old sim was faulty)
- Installed Ubuntu 9.04, the modem was auto detected, selected service provider and "voila".

I wish this was possible in Kubutu but can not afford to keep on struggling with this issue.