Greetings, Im using a Huawei E220 USB modem, currently running 2.6.22.5 vanilla kernel. It has worked fine for me since 2.6.21. The lights give you a hint what mode its in. Green = usb_storage, Dark-blue = MODEM_slow, bright-blue = MODEM_fast (3G).
If the light is green after reboot, I need to reboot again until it turns blue. I know this sucks, but just something I've noticed. One hint is to put the USB modem as static in kernel and usb_storage as module. Best wishes Kristoffer Ericson On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:09:45 +0100 Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I recently got an Huawei E220 usb modem. Reading a bit on the net I > found that: > > The Huaweii E220 modem is a composite USB device: in fact it acts like a > mass storage device, and also as three serial communication ports. The > Linux's developers dealt with this ignoring the mass device storage > (which is a read-only mass storage, i.e. a CD-ROM with preload software > only for Windows). For more information see > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.20-rc2 or > http://lwn.net/Articles/220545/ where you read the changelog for 2.6.20 > linux kernel. The interesting part is reported here below: > > [...] > Johann Wilhelm (2): usb-storage: Ignore the virtual cd-drive of the > Huawei E220 USB Modem usb-gsm-driver: Added VendorId and ProductId for > Huawei E220 USB Modem > [...] > > This modification is present from Linux kernel 2.6.20 and more recent > ones. > > See: http://ske.sourceforge.net/html/projects/huawei/huawei_tre.html > > Now that I plug my modem I definitely get this usb storage device, and I > need to call a special program to switch to the other mode > (huaweiAktBbo, from > http://www.kanoistika.sk/bobovsky/archiv/umts/huaweiAktBbo.c). > > Several pages on the web state that it should work *without* this switch > program. > > Is this a regression from 2.6.20, or is it supposed to work? > > Thanks a lot and all the best > > Norbert > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vienna University of > Technology > Debian Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian TeX Group > gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 > B094 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > DEAL (n.) > The gummy substance found between damp toes. > --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
