Hi Gents, I was unable to get the USB modem working, so in the end I bought a D-Link USB WiFi link and a Netcomm Wireless home gateway. This combination worked straight out of the box. Thanks, David. >-- Original Message -- >Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 20:14:42 +0300 >From: Jacques Goldberg <Jacques.Goldberg@xxxxxxx> >Reply-To: discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To: Neal B <techsupportbyneal@xxxxxxxxx> >CC: Discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, David Knabe <davidknabe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: Re: OMG Please Help Me - USB not PCI Thomson SGS supported by > > >Neal, > >scanModem is a tool mainly aimed at so-called PCI internal modems. > >Yours is an external modem thus scanModem and ModemData.txt valuably >report the identity of your modem but not more. > > >Will perhaps you, _*and certainly whoever wants to help*_, read > >http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-nineth/msg00739.html > >and the previous and next threads linked in that Web page? > >The information in there is for an Ubuntu kernel 2.6.27-7 but your >friend has equipped you with version 2.6.28-11. > >Thus the compilation reported by Marv in >http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-nineth/msg00739.html > >has to be repeated. > >I unfortunately cannot help because I even do not use Ubuntu/KUbuntu at >all , while the exact version which you now have on your computer is >necessary to send you a precompiled module. > > >Furthermore there is no further report, success, failure, from David >Knabe <davidknabe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:davidknabe%40iprimus.com.au>> > >Perhaps you want to contact him directly. > > >Jacque > > >Neal B wrote: > >> My friend upgraded my kubuntu and now i need to reconfig my modem but >> im not the one who set it up. Please help me. I need step by step >> instructions on how to set up and config my modem. thank you >> >