*MAJOR* NetworkManager serial/usb modem configuration problem in fedora 12

[rick james <rj1961r9 gmail com>]

 How do you configure v.92 serial/usb external dialup modems in Fedora
12? All I see from NetworkManager are options for configuring wireless
modems and other hardware, which quite frankly is totally useless to
me but shows nothing dealing with usb/serial modems, but as can be
clearly  be seen below Fedora 12 itself sees the usb-to-serial port
cable I'm using with my laptop, while with various Fedora 12  live
cd's NetworkManager seem for some completely unknown reason and
idiotic reason seem totally ignore the serial ports on my main
machine.

I don't know who got the bright idea of ignoring serial/usb modems,
but it's a totally and completely stupid idea given that a lot of
people are still perfectly happy with their dial-up connections and
aren't about to run out and subscribe to some overpriced and
ridiculous  wireless data plan.




Jan 20 17:10:44 localhost kernel: usb 2-2.3: new full speed USB device
using ehci_hcd and address 7
Jan 20 17:10:44 localhost kernel: usb 2-2.3: New USB device found,
idVendor=05ad, idProduct=0fba
Jan 20 17:10:44 localhost kernel: usb 2-2.3: New USB device strings:
Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
Jan 20 17:10:44 localhost kernel: usb 2-2.3: Product: USB-Serial Controller
Jan 20 17:10:44 localhost kernel: usb 2-2.3: Manufacturer: Prolific
Technology Inc.
Jan 20 17:10:44 localhost kernel: usb 2-2.3: configuration #1 chosen
from 1 choice
Jan 20 17:10:44 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new interface
driver usbserial
Jan 20 17:10:44 localhost kernel: USB Serial support registered for generic
Jan 20 17:10:44 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new interface
driver usbserial_generic
Jan 20 17:10:44 localhost kernel: usbserial: USB Serial Driver core
Jan 20 17:10:44 localhost kernel: USB Serial support registered for pl2303
Jan 20 17:10:44 localhost kernel: pl2303 2-2.3:1.0: pl2303 converter detected
Jan 20 17:10:44 localhost kernel: usb 2-2.3: pl2303 converter now
attached to ttyUSB0
Jan 20 17:10:44 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new interface
driver pl2303
Jan 20 17:10:44 localhost kernel: pl2303: Prolific PL2303 USB to
serial adaptor driver
Jan 20 17:10:44 localhost modem-manager: (ttyUSB0) opening serial device...
Jan 20 17:10:56 localhost modem-manager: (ttyUSB0) closing serial device...