I've decided to name this distribution, 9.10, the "9-out-of-10". Many things seem to work so far (haven't tested them all yet, I can tell some of the buttons seem not to respond, but it goes beyond this Bug report). Anyway, here's my report with a Vodafone Portugal equipment. - Netbook: Eee PC 1000H (Intel Atom N270 @1.60GHz processor, 1GB RAM, 160Gb disk, Bluetooth, SD reader, 1.3M webcam). - Dongle: Huawei K3520 (see lsusb below), reads as a E620. Installed the Ubuntu Netbook Remix ISO from CD (using an external USB DVD drive) with kernel 2.6.31-14-generic (2.6.31-14.48), and had the reported problem. Following the instructions presented for bug #446146 , I 1) downloaded the linux-image .deb from my still-installed Windoze partition ;-) (after all I paid for it when I bought the netbook!) from karmic-updates by hand (browser), 2) rebooted and mounted the partition 3) installed the .deb file linux-image-2.6.31-15-generic (2.6.31-15.50), see e.g. http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic-updates/linux-image-2.6.31-15-generic 4) rebooted with the new kernel. The only change I had to make in Network Manager was to change the connection's IPv4 connection method to "only automatic addressed (ppp)" and enter the primary and secondary DNS servers' IPs. Relevant output from "lsusb": ---->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8---- Bus 002 Device 003: ID 12d1:1001 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E620 USB Modem Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 1.10 bDeviceClass 0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 64 idVendor 0x12d1 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. idProduct 0x1001 E620 USB Modem bcdDevice 0.00 iManufacturer 1 iProduct 2 iSerial 1 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 108 bNumInterfaces 4 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 0 bmAttributes 0xa0 (Bus Powered) Remote Wakeup MaxPower 500mA Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 3 bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bInterfaceSubClass 255 Vendor Specific Subclass bInterfaceProtocol 255 Vendor Specific Protocol iInterface 3 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes 3 Transfer Type Interrupt Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0010 1x 16 bytes bInterval 128 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x82 EP 2 IN bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes bInterval 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x02 EP 2 OUT bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes bInterval 0 Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 1 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 2 bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bInterfaceSubClass 255 Vendor Specific Subclass bInterfaceProtocol 255 Vendor Specific Protocol iInterface 3 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x84 EP 4 IN bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes bInterval 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x03 EP 3 OUT bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes bInterval 0 Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 2 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 2 bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bInterfaceSubClass 255 Vendor Specific Subclass bInterfaceProtocol 255 Vendor Specific Protocol iInterface 3 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x85 EP 5 IN bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes bInterval 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x05 EP 5 OUT bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes bInterval 0 Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber 3 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 2 bInterfaceClass 8 Mass Storage bInterfaceSubClass 6 SCSI bInterfaceProtocol 80 Bulk (Zip) iInterface 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x83 EP 3 IN bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes bInterval 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x04 EP 4 OUT bmAttributes 2 Transfer Type Bulk Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes bInterval 0 cannot read device status, Operation not permitted (1) ----8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<---- Relevant output for "dmesg" (after inserting the dongle): ---->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8-------->8---- [ 110.686565] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 1(1) BSS returned, data->length = 159 [ 113.268106] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 [ 113.432472] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 113.545101] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... [ 113.547364] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices [ 113.547964] usb-storage: device found at 2 [ 113.547977] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning [ 113.548128] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage [ 113.548152] USB Mass Storage support registered. [ 113.736189] usb 2-2: USB disconnect, address 2 [ 114.472120] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 [ 114.645370] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 114.672345] scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices [ 114.673543] usb-storage: device found at 3 [ 114.673551] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning [ 114.699897] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial [ 114.699948] USB Serial support registered for generic [ 114.700094] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic [ 114.700103] usbserial: USB Serial Driver core [ 114.715439] USB Serial support registered for GSM modem (1-port) [ 114.715561] option 2-2:1.0: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected [ 114.715726] usb 2-2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0 [ 114.715748] option 2-2:1.1: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected [ 114.715877] usb 2-2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1 [ 114.715901] option 2-2:1.2: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected [ 114.716077] usb 2-2: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB2 [ 114.716125] usbcore: registered new interface driver option [ 114.716131] option: v0.7.2:USB Driver for GSM modems [ 119.674322] usb-storage: device scan complete [ 119.677264] scsi 6:0:0:0: CD-ROM HUAWEI Mass Storage 2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [ 119.680877] scsi 6:0:0:1: Direct-Access HUAWEI SD Storage 2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [ 119.712194] sr0: scsi-1 drive [ 119.712209] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 [ 119.712627] sr 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 [ 119.712872] sr 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5 [ 119.713383] sd 6:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [ 119.754722] sd 6:0:0:1: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk [ 129.867197] UDF-fs: No VRS found [ 129.867214] UDF-fs: No partition found (1) [ 129.897218] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 [ 129.902224] ISOFS: changing to secondary root [ 160.685184] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 2(2) BSS returned, data->length = 282 [ 178.913296] PPP BSD Compression module registered [ 178.948359] PPP Deflate Compression module registered ----8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<--------8<----