Hello Peter, as I understood you, you want to connect to the internet via a mobile phone. So the output of scanModem tells, that there is no modem found on the USB bus: >USB modem not detected by lsusb Could you try to identify the USB device, that shows up in the output of lsusb, if you plug in the cable to your mobile? It might be, that you need to do a "mount usbfs" before that! Most recent kernels do not automatically mount this virtual file system, that is required by lsusb still. Also take a look at the output of "tail /var/log/messages" after plugging in the mobile. If it say's something about serial USB driver, the device to look at is /dev/ttyUSB0. HTH, Joern