[ubuntu-in] (partially OT) Workaround for BSNL Huawei CDMA ets 2288 phone & Question regarding Ubuntu kernel

[Ramnarayan.K]

Hi

The CDMA FWT phone Huawei ETS T1 2288 has been non functional on
ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10. Needless to say its been frustrating to not be
able to use a later version of Ubuntu (and or other later software).

The problem seems to be that the respective (default) kernels seem to
not load the appropriate driver. for this device. The problem seems to
be with kernels 2.26.x and 2.27.x

Am wondering if under the latest ubuntu 9.04 this device has become
functional. Have not had the chance to try it out.

However what i do know is that this device is functional under kernel
2.6.26.8.tex3 in the distro PClinuxOS. (nope nothing to do with ubuntu
but hopeful signs that it may work)

So a question regarding the kernel - how much does it differ from
distro to distro - is there a possibility that Ubuntu developers might
have changed the kernel enough to make some devices non functional
under them..

ram