ZTE MF110?

[Tony Pursell]

On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 10:40 +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote:
> It should work fine.you usually need recent ubuntu and usb
> modeswitcher tool.
> 

Just out interest, what is the usb modeswitcher tool needed for?  And
what does it do?  My 3g modem just works after being set up in 'Edit
Connections'.


> Eero
> 
> 26.6.2011 10.34 "Johnny Rosenberg" <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> kirjoitti:
> > 2011/6/26 Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com>:
> >> On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 00:58 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> >>> On 25 June 2011 20:51, Tony Pursell <ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >>> > It would help if you told us what sort of device this is and,
> maybe,
> >>> > give us a link to a website for it.
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>> It's a 3g modem. 5 seconds and a search engine told me that.
> >>
> >> I think he was just trying to chide the OP into giving more
> information
> >> when asking for assistance, at the start. But, it took you more
> than 5
> >> seconds... you had to read the email, assimilate, click open a
> browser
> >> or at least a new tab, then type, hit return, wait, read what it
> was...
> >> more than a mere 5 seconds. Pull my other finger, Alan. Search
> engines
> >> do indeed tell us a lot. The thing is is, who's problem is it so
> who
> >> does the googling first?
> >>
> >> So, for ducks, I entered "ZTE MF110 ubuntu 10.10" in google and
> there
> >> are a bunch of links noted. Some report not so good. One guy
> reports
> >> "Okay, I have installed a newer kernel (2.6.38 generic) and now
> >> everything is working fine! I guess whatever the problem was got
> sorted
> >> out in the update."
> >>
> >> So there you have it. I just resent being the pivot man in a google
> >> jerk. Took more than 5 seconds to do a decent job, too.
> >>
> >>
> >> --
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> >> "There are two Great Sins in the world...
> >> ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
> >> Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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> >>
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> > 
> > I'm sorry for not giving more information, but what I wanted to know
> > was if someone on the list has one and if it worked out of the box,
> so
> > if you don't know what it is, I am pretty sure you don't have one…
> > However, when I read my original post I realise that I didn't say
> > specifically that I preferred replies from MF110-owners, sorry for
> > that.
> > 
> > I have also seen the MF110 online, but for some strange reason I
> only
> > saw those tested on older versions of Ubuntu, like 9.04 or
> something.
> > It seemed like some tricks were needed for making it work on those
> old
> > Ubuntu versions, so I kind of hoped that support for it were built
> in
> > to at least Ubuntu 10.10.
> > 
> > Anyway, it seems like no one who replied so far has the MF110, so I
> > guess I'd better search again.
> > 
> > 
> > Best regards
> > 
> > Johnny Rosenberg
> > ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ
> > 
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