[ubuntu-za] Vodacom E220 USB modem and Ubuntu Feisty 2.6.20-15-generic

[CM Schoonbee]

Thank you for your prompt reply and advice, Stephan.

(Just to clear up some possible confusion first.  In my OP, I included 
an url to a Bluetooth howto wiki page.  However the article url  
inserted there by Morgan  refers to a USB modem.  That is what I am 
enquiring about.  I already have my Bluetooth modem working thanks to my 
fellow Ubuntu users.)

Stephan, from my initial research (and I may have misunderstood 
everything), it seems that the unloading and reloading of modules was 
the approach to get the E220 recognized and working under earlier 
kernels (<2.6.18.)
The driver in 2.6.18? was then updated so that this was no longer necessary.
Subsequently and unfortunately, it appears that a Vodafone? firmware bug 
in the modem was exposed by and broke the updated driver included with 
kernel 2.6.20. So even unloading/reloading modules does not work anymore 
apparently. The E620 modem stills works with this kernel.

So what I am trying to find out at this stage is whether this is still 
the status of things or perhaps whether this is now fixed in an even 
newer kernel that is available for me to install. or perhaps that I have 
it all wrong and there is no problem to getting the modem to work under 
2.6.20.

It sounds like you have got the E220 work, Stephan.  Won't you please 
confirm the kernel version that you have achieved this success with?

Kind regards,
Chris

Stephan Buys wrote:
> The problem is that the usb stack mounts the E220's E3 drive before detecting 
> the serial port. You can fix it by unloading and reloading the usbstorage and 
> usbserial modules.
>
> Here is a link:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1774427
>
> I wrote the following scripts to get it going automatically:
>
> 1) /etc/udev/rules.d/51-hauwei-e220
>
> # Rules for HAUWEI e220
> SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="12d1", SYSFS{idProduct}=="1003", 
> RUN="/usr/local/bin/start_e220.sh"
> KERNEL=="ttyUSB0", SYMLINK="modem", GROUP="dialout", MODE="0660"
> KERNEL=="ttyUSB1", GROUP="dialout" MODE="0660"
> KERNEL=="ttyUSB2", GROUP="dialout" MODE="0660"
>
>
> 2) /usr/local/bin/start_e220.sh
>
> #!/bin/bash
> rmmod option
> sleep 2
> rmmod -r usbserial
> sleep 2
> modprobe usbserial vendor=0x12d1 product=0x1003
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>