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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