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  2. Comment #44

Comment 44 for bug 886130

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madbiologist (me-again) wrote : Re: Verizon Wireless USB551L 4G Wireless Card detected as wired NIC

A patch to support this device was added to the recently released upstream kernel 3.4, and to the upstream stable kernel 3.2.18. The latter should be coming to Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" as an SRU at some point in the future.

From the kernel 3.2.18 changelog:

author Dan Williams
Mon, 7 May 2012 04:24:51 +0000 (04:24 +0000)
committer Ben Hutchings
Sun, 20 May 2012 21:56:49 +0000 (22:56 +0100)
commit b31a26af02788341aa8b9b1490ca30fb0bc47389
tree d11202443c8506e4b779398599eb1a1e038b782a
parent d2636838e87a2eb7bb40e25864cc3a090d0df11b

cdc_ether: add Novatel USB551L device IDs for FLAG_WWAN

commit 4e6304b8420aba5311ba21fd68dab2924ae4d91a upstream.

Needs to be tagged with FLAG_WWAN, which since it has generic
descriptors, won't happen if we don't override the generic
driver info.

Cc: Oliver Neukum
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams
Acked-by: Oliver Neukum
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

If you want to try this in the meantime, a PPA of kernel 3.2.18 is available at http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/