connecting a ZTE F165 with next g to a ubuntu laptop

[Dave Hall]

On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 05:44 -0700, grahampower70 at gmail.com wrote:
> Gday all
> 
> I have a ZTE F165 moblie phone that I will like to use as a wireless
> modem on the telstra network though usb.The phone came up on network
> connections but I don't what setting I need to make it work

I know of the phone, but I have never tried to use it as a modem.
Usually just configure pppd to dial *99# and it connects.

You haven't said what you are using for the connection.  Personally I
use my own manually written config files for my phone as a hsdpa modem.

Cheers

Dave