Re: Configuring the Huawei E620 dongle to work using wvdial
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Alexander Samad wrote:
> I am doing something similar with tpg (aka optus), can I suggest just
> using pppd call <profile name> debug until you work out what the
> problem is, it all looks okay to me. but debug should give you some
> more info.
I looked at what the pppd manual page has to say about the "call <name>
debug" option. I am not sure what in this situation the <name> should
be. Under "call <name>" the pppd manual name has this to say:
"Read additional options from the file /etc/ppp/peers/<name>. This file
may contain privileged options, such as noauth, even if pppd is not
being run by root. The name string may not begin with / or include .. as
a pathname component. The format of the options file is described below."
In the /etc/ppp/peers/ directory there is only one file created since I
started trying to configure the E620: wvdial.distrib. The directory also
has a symbolic link: wvdial --> wvdia.distrib. That file contains the
following text:
noauth
name wvdial
usepeerdns
Should the <name> in "call <name> debug be wvdial?
Under the "debug" option in the "pppd" manual page appears the following:
"Enables connection debugging facilities. If this option is given, pppd
will log the contents of all control packets sent or received in a
readable form. The packets are logged through syslog with facility
daemon and level debug. This information can be directed to a file by
setting up /etc/syslog.conf appropriately (see syslog.conf(5))."
So, to make life easier I should add the following line in the rules
section of /etc/rsyslog.conf (rssyslog is installed in my laptop,
successor apparently to syslog):
pppd.* -/var/log/pppd.log
Correct? (I suppose I could grep all the pppd entries in / var/syslog
to a separate file, but amending the rsyslog.conf seems easier and neater.)
Finally, I should run the full command as root with the dongle attached,
yes?
Regards, Ken Heard
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