Comment 80 for bug 375148

Seasoned_geek, you mention a few of the frustrations that I remember myself. But to be fair to Ahmed's work, installation or compilation problems are something I haven't seen for quite a while now. Please acknowledge the progress being made instead of perpetuating statements that are no longer true for quite a while now. You continue to make frequent and far-reaching demands on other people, but I've yet to see a single contribution from you towards solving this problem. Not quite what I would expect from a "seasoned geek".

If Ahmed did indeed get the device to be created correctly, that's already a good step forward. If that modem then dialed out and connected, that's even better news. Giving Ahmed's history of claiming things are fixed when in fact they weren't, I guess it's normal that people have now grown suspicious and I encourage Ahmed to explain in more detail what he did test and how his successes were instead of merely closing a ticket with "package XY in Debian fixes it" (and then doesn't deliver on that promise once more).

Let's see if we can understand why Ahmed can apparently do some things that I still can't. Him running Karmic with an older kernel may be one of the reasons.