A patch to support this device was added to the recently released upstream kernel 3.4, and to the upstream stable kernel 3.2.18. The latter should be coming to Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" as an SRU at some point in the future.
>From the kernel 3.2.18 changelog: author Dan Williams Mon, 7 May 2012 04:24:51 +0000 (04:24 +0000) committer Ben Hutchings Sun, 20 May 2012 21:56:49 +0000 (22:56 +0100) commit b31a26af02788341aa8b9b1490ca30fb0bc47389 tree d11202443c8506e4b779398599eb1a1e038b782a parent d2636838e87a2eb7bb40e25864cc3a090d0df11b cdc_ether: add Novatel USB551L device IDs for FLAG_WWAN commit 4e6304b8420aba5311ba21fd68dab2924ae4d91a upstream. Needs to be tagged with FLAG_WWAN, which since it has generic descriptors, won't happen if we don't override the generic driver info. Cc: Oliver Neukum Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Acked-by: Oliver Neukum Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings If you want to try this in the meantime, a PPA of kernel 3.2.18 is available at http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/886130 Title: Verizon Wireless USB551L 4G Wireless Card detected as wired NIC To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/886130/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs