Great news that it's working!
I'm closing this bug as per your last comment.
By the way, you should run gnome-ppp as your user, not as root.
** Changed in: modemmanager (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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gnome-ppp fails under 9.10, works under 9.04
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/469881
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