Huawei E169 USB and GPRS [SOLVED]

[Lucio Crusca]

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
> [...]
> 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 can't get Ubuntu to connect

FYI, using a 2.6.34 mainline kernel it works in GPRS mode also.

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/

So Chan Chung Hang Christopher was more or less right, it's a regression 
bug, but in this case it does not seem we should blame Ubuntu/Canonical but 
Linus and friends...