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Dominique Eckert (dom-eckert) wrote : Huawei E169 USB dongle not working with kernel 2.6.31-12.40

I'm using a Huawei E169 USB dongle to connect to a GSM mobile broadband network. It used to work out-of-the-box with Jaunty and previous versions of Karmic (kernel 2.6.31-11 and previous). However the device doesn't work any more with the latest kernel.

Dmesg gives me repatedly this message:

dmesg:
option: option_instat_callback: error -108

lsusb:
Bus 005 Device 005: ID 12d1:1001 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E620 USB Modem

My system: Dell XPS M1530, see attached result of "lshw"

This bug apparently affects other people as well: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8070873#post8070873