Comment 1 for bug 824114

This should be fixed in the modemmanager 0.6 branch by these commits:

author Dan Williams 2012-05-30 16:47:10 (GMT)
committer Dan Williams 2012-05-31 22:27:34 (GMT)
commit cf561995c1c15d21967e0f15caf155748aac4051
tree 0d675aeb32bb181009f5fc46ecef4c46eabe91c0
parent 166844b946e110bced999ed01638fa7bc29b589e

uml290: add mode switching tool
Switches UML290 mode between 4G/LTE, 3G/EVDO/1X, and auto.

and:

author Dan Williams 2012-06-04 18:52:09 (GMT)
committer Dan Williams 2012-06-04 18:52:09 (GMT)
commit a46dcb10e26aa95960b568ad857424d8ed227739
tree 6e337b0548dfc251119d5a9e8d45a8c04db57063
parent 2493ca360e08013ccc084356b4a1af62b3dd3bf8

uml290: allow setting more global modes

Unfortunately the modemmanager 0.6~git201203261122.16a0029-0ubuntu1 snapshot currently in the Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" repositories is older than this and does not contain these patches. A new snapshot will hopefully be made before the 12.10 release.