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

[Bas Roufs]

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.


>
> 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?

> 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.

> Set up an account that dials *99***1# or *99#1, call it whatever you want.
Neither "*99***1#", nor "*99#1", call it whatever you want.

> 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.

> 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.)

>
> 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"

However it may be, I would highly appreciate your input/ advise.

Respectfully yours,

Bas.