Comment 4 for bug 840004

 Thanks for the reply, you were right in thinking it did not work at that time. Reworking history to find out how things once worked carries an onus - you get more insight with advanced rhetorical skills, but you need a universal systematic scheme of development, such as none of the main established religions can offer, just to find out where it's at right now.

I moved on to trying a T-Mobile 3G dongle with various methods. There was little success until I opted for Sakis3g, a script that you can download and use with Ubuntu. Now I still use it occasionally with my Ubuntu 12.04 OS on another computer, but of course all that is a bit out of date by now. Hope this is of some help to somebody.

Otherwise... keep on trawling, cast your nets on the other side, build your own way with positive mindfulness!

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> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 15:06:52 +0000
> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Subject: [Bug 840004] Re: Virgin Mobile Broadband USB dongle does not give web connection.
>
> This version has expired long times ago, and so will never get support
>
> ** Changed in: modemmanager (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Invalid
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> Title:
> Virgin Mobile Broadband USB dongle does not give web connection.
>
> Status in modemmanager package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Various sources of information were checked and methods tried, but Ubuntu help pages gave quite simple advice - try unmounting (because it may have been recognised wrongly). Running "lsusb" in terminal for information still shows:
> martinjmarsh@CP1:~$ lsusb
> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 003 Device 002: ID 09da:0006 A4 Tech Co., Ltd Optical Mouse WOP-35 / Trust 450L Optical Mouse
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1bbb:f000 T & A Mobile Phones
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> martinjmarsh@CP1:~$ ubuntu-bug udev
> martinjmarsh@CP1:~$
> So, although it is virginmobile.uk (websites at www.virginmedia.com & www.virginmobile.co.uk) that the business relates to, the dongle seems to be a T & A device (it has already been tested and found to work OK on my two Windows XP computers).
> There is alot more info at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NetworkManager/Hardware/3G which I have not had time to sort out find a path to developing the pro know-how required. Need to download Ubuntu updates?!
> This is an essential item for anyone thinking of moving to a residence without own landline or cable connection.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: udev 151-12.3
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-33.72-generic 2.6.32.41+drm33.18
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-33-generic i686
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sat Sep 3 00:01:01 2011
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
> MachineType: Dell Computer Corporation XPST650r
> ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-33-generic root=UUID=6d090104-7496-43ac-a5a9-e79b214dba4e ro quiet splash
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_GB.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: udev
> dmi.bios.date: 03/22/2000
> dmi.bios.vendor: Intel Corp.
> dmi.bios.version: A09
> dmi.board.name: SE440BX-3
> dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation
> dmi.board.version: AA722396-303
> dmi.chassis.type: 2
> dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
> dmi.chassis.version: MDT
> dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIntelCorp.:bvrA09:bd03/22/2000:svnDellComputerCorporation:pnXPST650r:pvr:rvnIntelCorporation:rnSE440BX-3:rvrAA722396-303:cvnDellComputerCorporation:ct2:cvrMDT:
> dmi.product.name: XPST650r
> dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
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