usb_modeswitch by default
Dan Williams
dcbw at redhat.com
Wed Mar 10 01:59:42 UTC 2010
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 16:03 -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 14:07 -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> > On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:27:48 -0800
> > Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > > I have taken over the maintainership from Robert, and the new
> > > > > usb_modeswitch rpms are in rawhide now.
> > > >
> > > > And F-13?
> > >
> > > I'm pushing for F13 and F12 at least :) I usually end up getting the
> > > bugs when modems don't switch, I just never had the time to give
> > > usb_modeswitch any love.
> >
> > One last thing: Dan, is it your page at this URL:
> > http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/MobileBroadband
> >
> > It says:
> >
> > Huawei
> >
> > Most Huawei devices are handled automatically by the kernel.
> > If the 'option' driver which handles Huawei devices lacks the
> > USB IDs of your device, the correct solution is to add those
> > IDs to the kernel driver by submitting a patch to your distribution's
> > bugzilla or Linux Kernel Mailing List. If your device is not yet
> > recognized, you can eject the fake driver CD with usb_modeswitch,
> > and bind the generic usbserial driver manually to the device (see below).
> >
> > Someone filed a bug about this today:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=571542
>
> Thanks, I'll correct that text.
Text clarified.
Dan
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