usb_modeswitch by default

[Peter Hutterer]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 09:27:47PM +0100, drago01 wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Increasingly a number of broadband connections require usb_modeswitch to
> > connect online
> >
> > http://who-t.blogspot.com/2010/03/vodafone-australia-mobile-broadband-and.html
> >
> > Any opposition to adding this to the base group?
> 
> Well we could/should just make modemmanager to require it.

We should wait until Bug 563503 is resolved. Version 1.1.0 has the udev
rules for plug-and-play magic, earlier versions still need to be invoked
manually. That's on top of the new device support 1.1.0 offers (including
the one that prompted me to write the post above).

Cheers,
  Peter