Same here, or rather at a friends house. it connects but then it disconnects at random, it _sometimes_ works after some connects and disconnects and re-connects. it seems to be a problem with that it can not keep the connection with the network open.
$ lsusb Bus 002 Device 003: ID 12d1:1003 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E220 HSDPA Modem / E270 HSDPA/HSUPA Modem Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 003: ID 03f0:7e04 Hewlett-Packard DeskJet F4100 Printer series Bus 001 Device 002: ID 15d9:0a33 Unknown Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub $ uname -a Linux larsolof 2.6.31-15-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 10 14:54:29 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux -- Huawei E220 and E169 3G dongle do not work on karmic (major regression) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/430011 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs