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

[O. Sinclair]

O. Sinclair wrote:
> 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
Sorry, unclear. What I mean is that in Kppp it must read /dev/ttyUSBx as 
modem port, not something else. There are multitudes of choices and I 
have made mistakes myself on that.