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From: Ian on 19 Jun 2008 04:38
Dear All,

I have recently tried my Huawei E220 (T-Mobile broadband modem) on my
Thinkpad R40e. It works fine - and is normally used - on my Eee with
eeeXubuntu (7.10) but doesn't work at all on the Thinkpad with Ubuntu
8.04. That is, it doesn't show up as a USB mass storage device and the
Vodafone Connect Card Driver for Linux can't see it. When I boot the
same machine with XP the device shows up and works just fine.

Any bright ideas?

Ian
From: Ian Rawlings on 19 Jun 2008 04:47
On 2008-06-19, Ian <ian.groups(a)btinternet.com> wrote:

> Any bright ideas?

Yes, watch syslog and dmesg output to see what happens when you plug
it in, and use lsusb with various options to see if it's being seen,
then make sure you've got the relevant kernel modules compiled.

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From: Martin Liddle on 19 Jun 2008 06:58
In message
<4192c355-92c3-4647-b780-80c32c3c28f0(a)2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com>, Ian
<ian.groups(a)btinternet.com> writes
>
>I have recently tried my Huawei E220 (T-Mobile broadband modem) on my
>Thinkpad R40e. It works fine - and is normally used - on my Eee with
>eeeXubuntu (7.10) but doesn't work at all on the Thinkpad with Ubuntu
>8.04. That is, it doesn't show up as a USB mass storage device and the
>Vodafone Connect Card Driver for Linux can't see it. When I boot the
>same machine with XP the device shows up and works just fine.
>
Not sure if this is relevant to your situation but to get a T-Mobile
E220 working on Fedora 8 I had to add the following to
/usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/10osvendor/20-broken-usb-sticks.fdi

just after the:

<!-- some usb sticks don't like polling --> comment

<match key="@storage.originating_device:usb.vendor_id" int="0x12d1">
<match key="@storage.originating_device:usb.product_id" int="0x1003">
<merge key="info.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</match>



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From: Ian on 19 Jun 2008 10:51
On 19 Jun, 11:58, Martin Liddle <new...(a)tynecomp.co.uk> wrote:

> Not sure if this is relevant to your situation but to get a T-Mobile
> E220 working on Fedora 8 I had to add the following to
> /usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/10osvendor/20-broken-usb-sticks.fdi

Ah-ha. In that file, I have

<!-- Ignore the Huawei E220 USB HSDPA modem -->
<match key="@storage.originating_device:usb.vendor_id"
int="0x12d1">
<match key="@storage.originating_device:usb.product_id"
int="0x1003">
<merge key="info.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</match>

Um, why? Is that to stop it popping up as a mass storage device? Does
it prevent the computer seeing it at all?

Ian

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