Comment 88 for bug 305968

I just tried my ZTE modem form three.co.uk on karmic, and it does work with the network manager applet in kde. I did install a few dependencies, and run the installer.
The 3 dialling program didn't work, but connecting via network manager with a dialling number of "*99#" and nothing else set did let me get to their website.

I am not sure how many pre-reqs were really needed, and their kernel module failed to build, but I suspect the udev rule they supplied allowed the device to appear as a modem and not a cdrom
The udev rule in quesiton is:
#SUBSYSTEM!="usb_device", GOTO="phone_rules_end"
#ACTION!="add", GOTO="phone_rules_end"KERNEL=="sr*",SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi"
#ACTION!="remove", GOTO="phone_rules_end",KERNEL=="scd*",NAME="%k", ACTION=="add",
BUS=="usb",KERNEL=="sr[0-9]*", GROUP="cdrom",SYSFS{idVendor}=="19d2", SYSFS{idProduct}=="2000",SYMLINK+="MODEMCONNECTION",MODE="0666", RUN+=""
LABEL="phone_rules_end"

But as I am on a liveCD I did not reboot, so don't know if it actually was used or not