Problem with Sierra AirCard 860 on 8.04

[Horndog]

I have a Sierra AirCard 860 and followed the howto on a new install of ubuntu 8.04, IBM T41 laptop.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AirCard8X0

I get this when I turn on the cards radio:

horndog@horndog-laptop:~$ pon ac850
/etc/chatscripts/ac850chat: 1: Permission denied
/etc/chatscripts/ac850chat: 3: TIMEOUT: not found
/etc/chatscripts/ac850chat: 5: OK: not found
/etc/chatscripts/ac850chat: 7: CONNECT: not found
Connect script failed

I tried root with same results:

horndog@horndog-laptop:~$ sudo pon ac850
/etc/chatscripts/ac850chat: 1: Permission denied
/etc/chatscripts/ac850chat: 3: TIMEOUT: not found
/etc/chatscripts/ac850chat: 5: OK: not found
/etc/chatscripts/ac850chat: 7: CONNECT: not found
Connect script failed

I did a google search come up with this:

sudo apt-get remove network-manager network-manager-gnome

No help

More info:

horndog@horndog-laptop:~$ ls /dev/um*
/dev/umts

This is interesting. The card is not a network device contrary to the howto

horndog@horndog-laptop:~$ pccardctl ident
Socket 0:
  product info: "Sierra Wireless", "AC850", "3G Network Adapter", "R1"
  manfid: 0x0192, 0x0710
  function: 2 (serial) 
Socket 1:
  no product info available

My syslog entry:

May  8 02:52:59 horndog-laptop dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
May  8 02:53:01 horndog-laptop dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
May  8 02:53:09 horndog-laptop dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
May  8 02:53:09 horndog-laptop dhclient: No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
May  8 02:53:09 horndog-laptop dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
May  8 02:53:09 horndog-laptop dhclient: No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
May  8 02:55:52 horndog-laptop pppd[7635]: pppd 2.4.4 started by horndog, uid 1000
May  8 02:55:53 horndog-laptop pppd[7635]: Connect script failed
May  8 02:55:54 horndog-laptop pppd[7635]: Exit.
May  8 02:57:47 horndog-laptop dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on ath0 to 255.255.255.255

Any suggestion?
Thanks

BTW I don't have any internet without this connection.
I have to boot into windows to acess the internet and drag
any files back to ubuntu with a flash drive.

EDIT
Could it be that this is a new install and no network has ever been setup?

EDIT2

This is the information that was requested on the IRC from "soundray"

ls -l /dev/umts
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 65 2008-05-09 13:50 /dev/umts

BTW thank soundray