Comment 194 for bug 868034

I have to go along with Pablo's comment above. Where exactly are we now with this bug?

I'm aware of lots of good investigative work having been done, some problems and solutions having been found, and I can see reports of fixes having been released in both Oneric and Precise, but I'm still lost and confused. Have these fixes actually come out as updates now? I've been watching the updates in Oneric but haven't noticed any. Then if and when updates are issued, how will I know, and am I at that point expected to revert to the latest modem manager?

But as a mere E220 user who has been suffering the effects of this bug since Oct 2011, and who hasn't been able to follow all the technical details here, I'm still lost. Considering my Oneric is fully updated, should I now be able to plug my E220 in, click on it under Mobile Broadband, and log-in? Or do I still have to plug it in before booting my Oneric in order to get it to work?

I would very much appreciate (and I expect Pablo and others would too) a review in simple language of where we think we are with this bug now, and what we should be doing to get our E220s to log-in easily.

I would also like to ask for clarification on the status of this bug in Precise. Is it the same as in Oneric? If I were to install Precise now and apply all the latest updates, do we think my E220 would log-in properly like it used to do in 10.04?