I reported this problem quite some time ago, and considering it causes a total system lockup, I am surprised I cannot seem get anyone interested to actually do anything to get this fixed, but I have now confirmed what is actually happening.
In a nutshell, when the USB subsystem detects the Quicksilver modem, it hands off to the "Gnome Network Manager", which in turn hands off to the new "Gnome Modem Manager". The "Gnome Modem Manager" then grabs the ttyHS* ports even though it has no idea how to handle the Quicksilver ttyHS* devices correctly and proceeds to lock up the entire computer in it's persistant efforts to do exactly the wrong thing. I have not found a way to tell Gnome Network Manager and/or it's partner in this abuse Gnome Modem Manager to back off and do not touch the Quicksilver ttyHS* devices because they obviously do not know how to handle and control these devices correctly. A drakonian approach is to simply completely uninstall Gnome Network Manager and Gnome Modem Manager. However this also eliminates the good things they do for wired and wifi connections. Unfortunately I have not yet found a better way to address this issue. For some more into on the topic you can check out this URL > http://www.pharscape.org/forum/index.php/topic,802.0.html This is the forum for the HSOconnect gui tool for the hso driver. -- USB device insertion causes total system lockup on Ubuntu 9.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/469376 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
