Huawei E169 USB and GPRS

[NoOp]

On 05/27/2010 06:58 AM, Lucio Crusca wrote:
> Hello *,
> 
> I've a Huawei GPRS/UMTS dongle, lsusb sees it as
> 
> Bus 007 Device 005: ID 12d1:1001 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E620 USB 
> Modem
> 
> Since last year it used to work on my old Ubuntu 9.04. Then my notebook 
> broke up, I bought another one and now I've problems with Ubuntu 10.04.
> I've tried to connect yesterday in a downtown area with good umts signal and 
> it worked like a charm. Today I'm back again in my rural village where we 
> have only GSM (= GPRS) signal. I'm sure there's GSM because the same SIM 
> card in my cellphone works. However I can't get Ubuntu to connect, neither 
> using NetworkManager nor umtsmon 10 alpha2, and neither one gives me any 
> useful error message. I've already tried to set radio preferences in umtsom 
> to "GPRS/EDGE preferred", but nothing changed. 

A few places to check:
<https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=E620+USB+%2Bgsm&field.actions.search=Search>

Possible:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/546728

and:
<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&complete=0&q=ubuntu+%2BID+12d1%3A1001&btnG=Search>

<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&complete=0&q=ubuntu+%2BID+12d1%3A1001+%2Bgsm&btnG=Search>

http://forum.huawei.com/jive4/forum.jspa?forumID=46&orderStr=8

Sorry can't help further as I do not have access to the device.