I use Virgin moble broadband using the 12gig for $149 plan. The modem being a Huawei E1762. Its now quite a time since I set ip up but there was no real issue. Under linux the device appears as 5 devices...... usbcore: registered new driver usbserial drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for generic usbcore: registered new driver usbserial_generic drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for GSM modem (1-port) option 1-3:1.0: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected usb 1-3: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0 option 1-3:1.1: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected usb 1-3: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1 option 1-3:1.2: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected usb 1-3: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB2 usbcore: registered new driver option drivers/usb/serial/option.c: USB Driver for GSM modems: v0.7.1 eth1: no IPv6 routers present Vendor: HUAWEI Model: Mass Storage Rev: 2.31 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: HUAWEI Model: SD Storage Rev: 2.31 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdd sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete I cannot now remember the complete details, Try and have a look through previous posts on this list as I did post details when I installed it. Try a search around june july 2010, June being the date on the chatscript. The system works well although compared to what most people are used to its expensive and somewhat limited. below is the peers and chatscripts......... The user and password can be anything, it not being used. /etc/ppp/peers #debug /dev/ttyUSB0 crtscts #modem refuse-chap require-pap noauth #nodetach #usepeerdns defaultroute noipdefault noccp nobsdcomp novj user "irrelevant" password "irrelevant" connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/virgin" /etc/chatscript/virgin ABORT BUSY ABORT ERROR ABORT 'NO CARRIER' REPORT CONNECT TIMEOUT 10 "" "ATZ" OK AT+CGDCONT=1,"ip","VirginBroadband" OK "ATE1V1&D2&C1S0=0+IFC=2,2" OK "AT+IPR=115200" OK "ATE1" TIMEOUT 60 "" "ATD*99#" CONNECT \c Lindsay