stupid networking question

[Thomas Otterbein]

> Which version of Kubuntu are you running ?
8.10

>
> I seem to remember some people commenting that with Intrepid (8.10) that
> stopped working, though I've not attempted to use this on my Intrepid
> laptop yet (I just do the ifconfig by hand).
yes I had the same issue but the described method solved it, at least for me. 
However I just got tired of continously running a whole bunch of commands just 
to get my phone -trying to avoid the term "expensive brick" here ;-) - 
connected to the internet and ready to receive updates.