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My Huawei E169 used to be working fine with Linux NetworkManager under Fedora Core 10 until a recent yum upgrade. The NetworkManager now waits for some time (about 30 seconds) before it gives an error message on timeout. After some troubleshooting, the following files /etc/ppp/chap-secrets and /etc/ppp/pap-secrets need to have some changes in their permissions settings.

$> chmod 0660 /etc/ppp/chap-secrets /etc/ppp/pap-secrets

That solves the problem, and now I can access the Internet via my SingTel 3G network.