If you need a USB modem to reproduce this, then I'll procure one for you, direct
ship from www.pcconnection.com.  Just specify the delivery address and clearance
through your Receiving department.  If you are in the UK (or EU), then please
point me at a similar merchant (order in English via web or phone, 3rd party
delivery address, credit card payment) who can avoid the hassle of international
shipping.

Harald Hoyer
Red Hat GmbH
Hauptstätter Strasse 58
D-70178 Stuttgart, Germany

:-)

i confirm exactly the same case for Intracom S.A Netmod Usb modem (widely used
in Greece because national telephone company provide this with every
installation of isdn line).
This modem works with /dev/input/ttyACM0 device and is recongnized by the system
(i can see it in hwbrowser and in logs).
Also i noticed with latest versions of rhcnetwork that wvdial.conf includes
Init3 = ATM0 command for this modem causing failure because i think ATM0 is not
supported by modem.So an experienced user can delete the entry making things to
work.The same is not true for average user...

what about version 1.3.6?

Same problem ("no modem was found on your system") with
redhat-config-network-tui-1.3.6-1
redhat-config-network-1.3.6-1

This is the same physical USB modem, but on a "white box" clone (not the Dell
notebook that also has PCI winmodem).  The "gui boot screen" of severn took
significantly longer than usual (about a minute more?), but there was no
explanation on the message line, and I did not have to interact with kudzu
during boot, and there were no messages on the screen from kudzu during boot. 
Kernel module 'acm' did get loaded automatically, and this did not happen before
booting with the USB modem plugged in and switched on.

I will attach output from "kudzu -p -b USB" [which shows the modem], the
contents of /etc/sysconfig/hwconf [which does _not_ show the modem], and
USB-related snips from /var/log/messages.

Created attachment 94680 [details]
/etc/sysconfig/hwconf

Modem does not appear here, even though it is plugged, switched on, and booting
took longer than usual

Created attachment 94681 [details]
/usr/sbin/kudzu -p -b USB

MODEM appears here

Created attachment 94682 [details]
cat /proc/bus/usb/devices

modem appears here

Created attachment 94683 [details]
grep -i usb /var/log/messages

modem detected at boot, acm kernel module loaded

a few weeks ago, I sent a patch for kudzu to scan for USB modems and report them
as modems. reassigning to kudzu.

kudzu-1.1.20-1.1 was used this morning when running the tests on the "white box"
system.

Said patch hasn't been integrated yet, will try and get to it in the next week
or so.

Hi Harald,

Please Create a New Attachment containing the patch mentioned in Additional
Comment #10.  Then other members of the Fedora community may be able to help
with integration and testing.  Thank you.

Created attachment 95015 [details]
kudzu modem patch

to be discussed

Initial success!
 
The patch applied cleanly to kudzu-1.1.31-1, and rpmbuild succeeded after
installing 'dietlibc' [shouldn't this be a build dependency or build prereq for
kudzu?].  Intalling ./python2.2/_kudzumodule.so as
/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/_kudzumodule.so, then running
redhat-config-network, and asking for a New Modem connection: correctly detected
the USB modem, and pre-selected /dev/input/ttyACM0, and the rest of
configuration GUI gave the normal responses and did not complain.  Attempt to
activate the interface gave "failed with error 8", but the phone line was not
connected, so that message may have been cryptic for "no dial tone".

However, no link for /dev/modem was created [" find /dev -name '*odem*' " showed
no files].  Should there be such a link?

Can you attach /proc/tty/driver/acm?

Sorry, but I don't see any /proc/tty/driver/acm:
-----
# ls -l /proc/tty/driver
total 0
-r--r--r--    1 root     root            0 Oct  8 20:50 rfcomm
-r--r--r--    1 root     root            0 Oct  8 20:50 serial
# cat /proc/tty/driver/serial
serinfo:1.0 driver:5.05c revision:2001-07-08
# cat /proc/tty/driver/rfcomm
#   ## empty file for rfcomm
# cat /proc/tty/driver/acm
cat: /proc/tty/driver/acm: No such file or directory
# 
-----

I also replaced /usr/sbin/kudzu itself, using the new kudzu from the build.  
Rebooting with the USB modem plugged in and turned on, the boot pauses for about
30 seconds in Probing for new hardware (I can't see what is going on, even with
rhgb-0.10.2-1), but the modem does not appear in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf. 
However, kernel module acm is loaded (and wasn't before).  minicom works, after
working around _its_ bug with the 3-level pathname /dev/input/ttyACM0 (bug
#98160).  I did get redhat-config-network to dial for an Activate, but it
crashed when I canceled (bug #106637).

My offer in Comment #1 still stands: If you're in the US and would like a USB
modem for testing, then just specify the delivery address and "clearance"
through your Receiving dept.

No /proc/tty/driver/acm file? Bah, silly driver. :)

*** Bug 126049 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 67275 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

kudzu isn't used for modem probing any more; ergo, this is unlikely to be changed.