Mobile broadband

[Mark Widdicombe]

On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 23:08 +1000, Nick Edwards wrote:
> IIRC Gentoo is a rolling release, and their wiki is awesome, it
> contains real detail, not some bloated opinion that is heavy on
> ubuntu's wiki's, and has detail to real questions, not some crap that
> any 13yo kid already knows. ubtunu's wiki is a joke its the last place
> I look for answers.
>
> Why is mobile broadband such a pain in the arse with Ubuntu, using
> e220, on fedora and gentoo the bitch knows its a GSM modem and not
> storage, but  Ubuntu, keeps failing 9/10 times, the e220 should not
> need mode switch because the kernel does the switching for this modem,
> but Ubuntu, no, not even with modeswitch does it work reliably, who
> was it that used to say ubuntu butchers things to oblivion? I am
> starting to see there point of view.
>
Hi Nick,

I understand your frustration.  I struggled for about two weeks to get
my Huwaei E160 modem working with modeswitch, and eventually only won
when I installed wicd.  I thought they had sorted it out in newer
versions, but it seems not.

I took the liberty of starting a new thread for you because this is
quite important to a lot of users.

Regards,
Mark

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