Huawei E169 USB and GPRS [SOLVED]

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

Lucio Crusca wrote:
> Lucio Crusca wrote:
> 
>> Hello *,
>>
>> I've a Huawei GPRS/UMTS dongle, lsusb sees it as
>>
>> Bus 007 Device 005: ID 12d1:1001 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E620 USB
>> Modem
>> [...]
>> I've tried to connect yesterday in a downtown area with good umts signal
>> and it worked like a charm. Today I'm back again in my rural village where
>> we have only GSM (= GPRS) signal [...] I can't get Ubuntu to connect
> 
> FYI, using a 2.6.34 mainline kernel it works in GPRS mode also.
> 
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/
> 
> So Chan Chung Hang Christopher was more or less right, it's a regression 
> bug, but in this case it does not seem we should blame Ubuntu/Canonical but 
> Linus and friends...
> 

Nitpick, if it don't get backported...

This is supposed to be a user's distro, not a geek distro so if the 
fixes are not backported, the blame shall be on Ubuntu/Canonical unless 
they upgrade to using 2.6.34.