David Your trust USB modem presumably corresponds to: card in bus 001: Modem chipset detected on SLOT="Bus 001 Device 002:" NAME="Conexant Systems (Rockwell), Inc. " bus=001 USBmodemID=0572:1328 IDENT=gdcmodem Driver=gdcmodem For candidate modem in: 001 Conexant Systems (Rockwell), Inc. Primary device ID: 0572:1328 Support type needed or chipset: gdcmodem -------- have to correct a typo in scanModem: gdcmodem should be dgcmodem. Also I have to automate output of the guidance below. Precompiled drivers are not yet available for 2.6.24-16 kernels at: >From http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/dgc/downloads-ubuntu-x86.php So from http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/dgc/downloads.php#generic get the dgcmodem_1.05_i386.deb.zip Unpack under Linux with: $ unzip dgc*.zip Try the install with: $ sudo dpkg -i dgc*.deb Should the compilation step fail, you probably have to install packages linux-libc-dev & libc6-dev which might be on your install CD or can be searched out at http://packages.ubuntu.com After download and copy to the Ubuntu, they can be installed with: $ sudo dpkg -i li*.deb Then retry the $ sudo dpkg -i dgc*.deb The modem should subsequently be found (maybe a reboot necessary) by: $ sudo wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf Edit in your personal info with $ sudo gedit /etc/wvdial.conf and try a dialout with: $ sudo wvdial MarvS scanModem maintainer ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "DavidInNormandy" <DavidInNormandy@xxxxxxxx> To: <Discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 17:45:23 +0200 Subject: David, France, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic Hi, Can you identify my modem and what I do next please? The modem is a USB modem, Trust MD-1270. Attached is ModemData.txt