FATAL: Module usbserial not found

[alifdalya]

Hi all..

when i try to switch usb win modem to linmodem.. i use this command:

adie@alifdalya:~$ sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x1c9e product=0x6061
FATAL: Module usbserial not found.
adie@alifdalya:~$

but before this when im using kernel 2.6.27-11 its just ok.. i think this is a bug about the new kernel

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Thank you for taking the time to make Ubuntu better. Please give us the kernel version you are using be posting the output of 'uname -a' . If you mean 2.6.28 then in 2.6.28-11-generic (and previous versions afaik) usbserial is compiled into the kernel and cannot be un- / loaded with modprobe any more. You'll have to use the submodules.

[alifdalya (alifdalya81)]

adie@alifdalya:~$ uname -a
Linux alifdalya 2.6.28-11-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Mon Mar 23 16:40:23 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

by the way im newbie here.. so what do you mean by to use the submodules, tq

[javi (javuchi)]

>>> Thank you for taking the time to make Ubuntu better. Please give us the kernel version you are using be posting the output of 'uname -a' . If you mean 2.6.28 then in 2.6.28-11-generic (and previous versions afaik) usbserial is compiled into the kernel and cannot be un- / loaded with modprobe any more. You'll have to use the submodules.

This is not going to work for a lot of users, as some 3G need to pass module options, and will just broke 3G connections for thousand of users. Please, include usbserial as a module, there are several bug reports opened related to this, and you can expect more and more people complaining as they download 9.04 and discover that his connections just doesn't work.