Hi Mark, Not sure if this is of any help to you, however last night I successfully connected to the internet using Ubuntu 7.10 and my Samsung Next G mobile phone, via the USB cable. Here's what I did: * SU to root     user@pc:~$ su     password: xxxxxxx * edit your wvdial.conf settings as follows     root@pc:/home/user# cd /etc     root@pc:/etc# nano wvdial.conf * delete everything from the file except the 'Dialer Defaults' heading (if there is none add one enclosed with '[' and ']') and add the following (Username and Password will be different depending on provider)     Modem = /dev/ttyACM0     Phone = *99#     Modem Type = USB Modem     Baud = 115200     Dial Attempts = 2     Username = vdata     Password = vdata * Save the file by pressing CTRL-O (Output) and then CTRL-X to exit nano (I love nano to bits - just be careful for whitespace sensitive files, for those use VI) * Depending on your mobile phone you may need to set it to be a modem or internet connection. Plug in your USB data cable ( Phone must be on… snigger :D ) * Exec the following at any point, root or not to establish an internet connection.     sudo wvdial * Wait a while for a connection to take place - you can watch the output window ;) * Enjoy surfing Let me know if you have any luck with that! Cheers Blake Munro VK6FBNZ <div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 9, 2008 8:31 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan <<a href="mailto:sridhar@dhanapalan.com">sridhar@dhanapalan.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, "Mark M Lambert" <<a href="mailto:mark+linux.ubuntu@marklambert.net">mark+linux.ubuntu@marklambert.net</a>> wrote: <div class="Ih2E3d">> Hi folks, > > I have a friend that wants to dump Vista and try Ubuntu on her laptop. > She uses a Virgin Mobile Broadband USB modem (on the 3G network) and I > can't find any easy ways of getting it to work in Linux. Has anyone on > this list had any success with a similar device? </div>I vaguely recollect that there are some people in SLUG who were/are looking for the same thing. I suggest that you check the archives on the main <a href="mailto:slug@slug.org.au">slug@slug.org.au</a> list, and if you don't find anything ask on that list. -- "Customers constantly evaluate other desktop platforms, [but] it would be so much work to move over that they hope we just improve Windows rather than force them to move. In short, without this exclusive franchise called the Windows API, we would have been dead a long time ago."         - Microsoft C++ General Manager Aaron Contorer, 1997 -- ubuntu-au mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com </a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au</a> </blockquote></div>