Comment 1 for bug 395870

Hello, there are 3 problems with this device. Luckily all 3 problems are easily solvable.

1. This device shows up as a cd-rom drive. You need to switch it to "modem" mode using this tool: http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/usb-modeswitch/. Pick your architecture, download, install, edit /etc/usb_modeswitch.conf and uncomment the entry for Alcatel X200. If everything goes well, the device ID reported by 'lsusb' should be 1bbb:0000. If you get 1bbb:f000 here, the modem is still in CD-ROM mode.

2. The serial ports exposed by the modem are not detected by neither the usbserial nor the option drivers. The easiest solution is add the above PCI ID to the list of supported IDs in the option.c driver and recompile the kernel. This fix has already been proposed upstream.

3. If you get the above working, you should now see two instances of the X200 under the "broadband devices" list, but only one will actually work. The other will either crash the modem or do nothing (bug #392869).

If you want a quick fix for (2) and (3), just add this to your 3rd party software sources, do and apt-get update, then apt-get upgrade:

  deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jmartinj/javi/ubuntu jaunty main
  deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/jmartinj/javi/ubuntu jaunty main