Comment 124 for bug 868034

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operator494D (operator494d) wrote : Re: Huawei E220 and E1550 can't connect on Ubuntu 11.10

hi people

just installed 11.10 and have this problem from start.
i had this same problem on maverick also ,random disconnections often with complete system crash(keyboard leds flashing and system not responding).dont know which modem manager i was using then but it was all the same with all maverick kernels and updates.

i am using huawei E153 ,and i noticed this was mostly happening when switching from 2g to 3g .when i set up connection to use only 3g crashes went down significantly.
When i used gnome ppp there was no crashes

now with 11.10 i was using its own mm 0.5 and it was horror.
after disconnection modem was visible with lsusb and usb-devices but i couldnt make it work even with manually running usb-modeswitch .

a note for gnome ppp in 11.10 ,for some reason it gave me error saying it cannot start pppd.
after runing it as root it was ok

now i followed above advice in #110 and tried mm 0.4 .so far so good(only one disconnect but w/o long term side effects :)