** NTLWorld <b.dr...@ntlworld.com> [2010-04-30 19:32]: > Just had a pleasant surprise! I collected my mobile broadband dongle > back from a friend who had borrowed it, and plugged it into my netbook. > It worked straight away. I hadn't expected that, as it is supposed to > present to the USB as a storage device, and from there, install Windows > drivers. I imagine some improvements in Lucid do something to tell the > modem automatically that it needs to be a modem. > > For interest, the modem is a ZTE MF622. I'm delighted! ** end quote [NTLWorld]
I think you'll find that it was likely more due to identification improvements. I have a ZTE MF627 that worked fine once you had unmounted the USB storage drive incarnation of it. With a minor patch to the usb_modeswitch package (configuration wise so it could be identified) it was automatically recognised as a modem. Having upgraded to Lucid I purged the patch package and it is still automatically identified as a modem without problems :) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 ====================================================================== Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
