ZTE MF110?

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 09:30 +0200, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 
> 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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> 
> 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.

I searched for 10.10 and the one guy said that with that kernel he was
OK. You might want to freeze 10.10 to that kernel if it works. Ric


-- 
My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"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.
Linux user# 44256