[Ubuntu-ZW] the ... 3G modems again URGENT

[O. Sinclair]

Anyone had any luck with the Econet World USB modems? They are 
identified on internet as GBC Great Bird China PL68 modems and seem to 
be a major headache.

Anyone knows where we can by replacements that do work in Karmic or 
Lucid Beta? My own Vodafone EDGE (ZTE apparently now Huawei) seems to 
have gone off market.

Any help appreciated, we can barely get these to work in Windows 7 and 
not at all in (k)ubuntu...

Sinclair

O. Sinclair wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have managed to get my own Vodacom (Huawei) usb modem working quite 
> well under 9.10 Karmic using ppp. However, now I am trying to get one of 
> the more recent Econet World 3G model EWZ3040 working and am failing 
> miserably.
> 
> from dmesg I get the following output:
> usb 2-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
> [ 2478.526193] usb 2-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> [ 2478.530513] scsi10 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> [ 2478.530810] usb-storage: device found at 8
> [ 2478.530815] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
> 
> and that's it. From lsusb I get this:
> Bus 002 Device 008: ID 1c9e:f000
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> Bus 005 Device 002: ID 04d9:1400 Holtek Semiconductor, Inc.
> Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 003 Device 005: ID 0a5c:4503 Broadcom Corp.
> Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0a5c:4502 Broadcom Corp.
> Bus 003 Device 003: ID 413c:8126 Dell Computer Corp. Wireless 355 Bluetooth
> Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp.
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> 
> As you can see the c9e:f000 is not identified as anything, it is "just 
> there". it does not come up as a disk either
> 
> Anyone have any ideas here, I need these to work before 2morrow....
> 
> Best regards,
> Sinclair
>