Comment 2 for bug 882294

solved by adding my user to the following groups.

dialout: Full and direct access to serial ports. Members of this group can reconfigure the modem, dial anywhere, etc.

dip: THe group's man stands for "Dialup IP". Being in group dip allows you to use a tool such as ppp, dip, wvdial, etc. to dial up a connection. The users in this group cannot configure the modem, they can just run the programs that make use of it.

Requesting that the addition of a user add those groups from the skeleton.