This is indeed a concern. Those dongles are quite common, at least here in .au
My latest patch was accepted and is now in gregkh tree, it should hit the next stable release and Linus soon now, might be worth making sure it's in the released kernel -- Huawei E169 USB dongle not working with kernel 2.6.31-12.40 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/446146 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