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

[O. Sinclair]

Bas Roufs wrote:
> Hello Sinclair and Everybody
>> it is called the APN for TMobile (or whatever provider). Internet searches ...(SNIP)
> The keywords "APN T-mobile NL" enabled me to find all the codes we
> need from the provider T-Mobile NL
> 
> Phone number for access to the modem: *99#
> APN: internet
> Account Name: tmobile
> Password: tmobile
> 
> One of the websites where I found this info is this one:
> http://www.pluk-in.com/pluknplay/apn_mobiel_netwerk_nederland.php
> 
>>>>>> when you dial set user to be " ", an empty space, or you get an error.
>>> Do you mean: an empty space inbetween " " ? Or are you simply pointing
>>> at an empty space to be created with the tabulator, without any other
>>> sign at all?
>> I mean an empty space
> 
> Via KPPP I tried to dial into the modem both with the empty space and
> with "tmobile" as user.
> In both cases I tried the four ports: ttyUSB0, ttyUSB1, ttyUSB2, ttyUSB3.
> But in all 8 variants I get a log window feedback like this:
> 
> kppp can not find:
>  /dev/usb/ttyUSB1
> Please make sure you have setup your modem device properly and/or
> adjust the location of the modem device on the modem tab of the setup
> dialogue.
there is a clue there, it states
/dev/usb/ttyUSB1
it should read
/dev/ttyUSB1

there are a lot of choices in /dev but if you check your dmesg output
again you must make sure that it reads
/dev/ttyUSBx
and not
/dev/something/ttyUSBx

Sinclair