Bug#733973: failed to detect /dev/ttyUSB0

[Richard Betham <richard@betham.org.uk>]

package: pppconfig
version: 2.3.20


pppconfig (running in tty3, as root) failed to detect my USB mobile 
broadband device.
pppconfig then offered to let me choose the device manually,
'(*) Manual Enter the port by                                    
hand.'
So I selected  <OK>
pppconfig replied 
'Enter the port your modem is on.
/dev/ttyS0 is COM1 in DOS.
/dev/ttyS1 is COM2 in DOS.
/dev/ttyS2 is COM3 in DOS.
/dev/ttyS3 is COM4 in DOS.
/dev/ttyS1 is the most common.   Note that this must be typed exactly 
as
shown.      Capitalization is important: ttyS1 is not the same as 
ttys1.'


To obtain the above result,
 I inserted my mobile broadband device into a USB socket and,
as root I gave the command pppconfig, and,
I input the following into pppconfig:-
Create	Create a connection  	<OK>
Provider name: 'Three7'                  <OK>
(*) Dynamic	Use dynamic DNS  <OK>
Authentication:	 CHAP		<OK>
user name   my user name
password  my password ( which is probably not needed)
Speed:		2048000			<OK>
Pulse or tone:		(*) Tone		<OK>
Phone Number:	'*99#'		<OK>
Choose modem config method: 	<Yes>
       pppconfig offered 'Manual  Enter the port by hand'	<OK>

It produced the list of options which I have typed above.

I prefer that it correctly detects a mobile broadband modem on the 
port /dev/ttyUSB0.
Failing that I would like pppconfig to include /dev/ttyUSB0 in its 
list of options when the user has to enter it by hand.

{ severity: wishlist
It would also be nice if pppconfig were to suggest the telephone 
number *99#,
if it detects  the USB mobile broadband device.
}

Thank you very much for maintaining pppconfig.
It is usefull, especially just after installing Debian from DVD.
I wish that DVD-1 always contained pppconfig,
so that we can use ppp.

Best regards
Richard Betham