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

On 2008-06-19, Ian  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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In message 
, Ian 
 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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On 19 Jun, 11:58, Martin Liddle  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