Hi, The 3G USBModem I purchase does not work when I plug it in to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex. I want it to "just work". I emailed here, and Ubuntu Forums, and then finally thought to contact the manufacturer, ZTE.
I told them adding Linux support would be easy, all they needed to do was provide information about their devices to the Linux community. On their support forum, they responded: "What information do you need?" So, what information do I need? To whom do I need to provide it? I know: Model: MF626 VendorID = 0x19d2 ProductID = 0x2000 (Storage) ProductID = 0x0031 (modem) A person at the ZTE forums reported the Device Map: DIAG VID=0x19D2,PID=0x0031 MI=00 NMEA VID=0x19D2,PID=0x0031 MI=01 TCard VID=0x19D2,PID=0x0031 MI=02 Modem VID=0x19D2,PID=0x0031 MI=03 The modem commands are: AT+ZOPRT=5 - makes the device to stay in online mode AT+ZCDRUN=8 - disables auto-run AT+CGDCONT - configures the correct APN profile Ubuntu 2008-04 (Hardy Heron) successfully noticed the USB Storage and automatically brought up a browser window. Then after a short pause, without any action on my part, the browser window went away. On Ubuntu 2008-10 (Intrepid Ibex) the automatic browser window never popped open. So, that looks like a regression to me, from 2008-04 to 2008-10. Neither Hardy nor Intrepid successfully loaded usbserial with the correct productID. So, basically usbserial gets loaded with the wrong productID. If I unload and reload it with right product ID, then I get /dev/ttyUSB0, ttyUSB1, and ttyUSB2. I'm not sure who's job it is to figure out that when a MF626 is plugged in, it should ignore the USB Mass Storage and just set up the modem to run. Question: Should I file A) HAL bug report, B)NetworkManager bug report, C) HAL and NetworkManager bug reports? D) Something else? Thanks, Tom -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
