How best to activate a mobile internet modem/ SIM card @ Kubuntu Karmic?

[ray burke]

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:56 PM, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bas Roufs wrote:
>> Hello Sinclair and Everybody
>>
>> Today, I am continuing my attempts to get my mobile internet working.
>> Earlier I wrote:
>>
>>>> I really would prefer some solution allowing me to use WICD for LAN
>>>> and WLAN in combination with some other packages for the mobile USB
>>>> broadband device "HUAWEI E1820".
>>
>> I have tried to follow the following instruction:
>>
>>> Here is my experience:
>>> For starters you should install Lucid as it has more drivers than
>>> Karmic. Second, remove the PIN using a phone.
>>
>> In the mean time, I have installed Lucid and removed the PIN via a mobile phone.
> Good - for starters according to ubuntuforums and other threads this
> modem should work so we should get it right sooner or later
>
>>
>>
>>> Following that install the package usb-modeswitch that kills off its
>>> tendency to appear as a CD-drive instead of modem.
>>
>> I have installed the package "usb-modeswitch". However, the modem
>> still appears as a CD-drive instead of a modem. So far, I did not find
>> any way to get this package working. Any clue?
> It does not really do anything you "see" but the modem SHOULD now no
> longer appear as a CD-drive, at least not a mounted one. If so - eject
> or unmount it
>
>>
>>> Lastly either set up kppp.
>>>
>>> Kppp must be run as "kdesudo kppp" or you get headaches, I made a
>>> shortcut myself.
>>
>> In another mail, you have tried to explain how to make this
>> "shortcut", however, I did not exactly understand it.
> If you have a Folder View on the Plasma Desktop, create a shortcut to
> application in it. Set the command in said shortcut to be "kdesudo kppp".
> Otherwise you can run the command from kicker using alt+F2
>
>>
>>> Set up an account that dials *99***1# or *99#1, call it whatever you want.
> I mean "name it what you want", the account that is
>
>> Neither "*99***1#", nor "*99#1", call it whatever you want.
> sorry it should very likely be *99# - but this is something your
> provider should know
>
>>> Set up a "3G" modem and change it to use /dev/ttyUSB(0-2), you have to
>>> experiment which port works. On one modem I have USB0, on another UBS2
>>> as port instead of /dev/modem
>> So far, I have tried 4 ports:
>> /dev/ttyUSB0
>> /dev/ttyUSB1
>> /dev/ttyUSB2
>> /dev/ttyUSB3
>> Neither of them seemed to work so far.
> After you inserted the modem and (if necessary) unmounted/ejected it run
> command "dmesg". Somewhere you should see lines about "gsm modem...
> /dev/ttyUSBx". Post output here if you can
>
>>
>>> Go into modem commands (this is Kppp I am talking about) and change only
>>> Initialization string 2 to be:
>>> AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","yourprovider.xxx"
>>
>> Do you mean something like the string below?
>> AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","tmobile.xxx"
>>
>> ("TMobile" is the name of my mobile internet provider.)
> Yes, it can be tmobile.net or tmobile.com or something like that. Again,
> your provider should be able to tell you.
>
>>> when you dial set user to be " ", an empty space, or you get an error.
>>
>> Is there anything else I could take into account in order to get my
>> mobile internet working via KPPP at Kubuntu 9.10 via the dongle "HUAEI
>> E1820"
> There are a number of ways but let's wait until we are done with
> combination Wicd/Kppp
>
> Best regards,
> Sinclair
>
>
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Sinclair

this email was passed on to me as I have the same problem?
I have followed the instructions and my plugged in DoDo usb mobile
broadband stick is showing up as a cd writer (DoDo WB) and I
understand that I have to download and install "usb_modeswith",
so where in .deb format would I get this from as, when I followed
the instructionbs and it tried to connect to my internal 56k modem/
and or my 115k extenal modem.
I run dual boot xp pro sp3 and Kubuntu 8.04, and the modem stick
works in xp pro but unable to get working in Kubuntu as I use my
115k external modem, can you help?

ray