What is this? Some service that you are trying to use? If you explain
it we may be able to guess what you are trying to do.

This sounds something like Vonage to me - VOIP.

Describe your setup.
What type of internet connection do you have:
cable, dsl, dialup?

From the wall you have the internet connection to the modem.
What is the make and model of the modem?

You have a ethernet cable from the modem to your VOIP router.
From the VOIP router you probably have only two OUT ports: one for the
phone and one for the computer.


Now, it just occurred that you might be saying - you are wanting to use
a cell phone as a modem. If this is the case, I know Verizon works, AT&T
has some problems, and i dont know about spring with Ubuntu.

it's where you use your cell phone as a modem to connect to the net
anywhere. apparently it only works with windoz. i told her to just get a
portable wireless modem, but that would cost her an extra $40 a month.

using the phone as a modem (in windows) also requires a monthly charge and
sprint will charge you for that... In windows i was able to use that feature
with unlimited data plan and using a software from mobileaction.com and of
course using their specific cable.
I was not able to use the same feature in linux as the hardware (the usb
cable provided by them) did not work on linux.