Anyway, seriously. What do I need to do to get this up and running? I need to connect to the internet to do work on and I've had it with just about every other OS there.
It depends on the exact model of dongle. Maybe it's actually supported, but the USB device IDs are different to the ones in the kernel, so it's ignored. Without seeing the full log messages as it connects, it's hard to speculate. As I said previously, I've had Huawei dongles that presented alternative USB device IDs, and after an AT command to disable the unneeded functionality, they presented as a different USB device that was recognised. Alternatively, they worked in their original connect-disconnect-reconnect modes when the other ID was added to the kernel. You've said that it connects as ugen, and also as umsm. Often the older dongles provided several serial interfaces, only one of which actually worked. Again, nobody will be able to help you without the log messages. -- Tati Chevron Perl and FORTRAN specialist. SWABSIT development and migration department. http://www.swabsit.com
