<HTML dir=ltr><HEAD><TITLE>hal-info: Do not mount the CD drive of the Huawei E220 USB HSDPA modem</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3132" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV id=idOWAReplyText90239 dir=ltr> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>De:</B> h Sam Morris<BR><B>Enviado el:</B> lun 10/03/2008 19:13<BR><B>Para:</B> Debian Bug Tracking System<BR><B>Asunto:</B> hal-info: Do not mount the CD drive of the Huawei E220 USB HSDPA modem<BR></FONT><BR><FONT size=2>Package: hal-info<BR>Version: 20080215-1<BR>Severity: normal<BR>Tags: patch<BR><BR>The Huawei E220 is a USB HSPDA/GPRS modem. It appears to the computer as<BR>a USB CD drive, on which are drivers for Windows systems. Of course, we<BR>need no such drivers, so the CD drive is useless and annoying as it is<BR>mounted by GNOME whenever a user logs in.<BR><BR>>The attached patch (taken from<BR><<A href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/105545">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/105545</A>>)<BR>causes HAL to ignore the CD drive.<BR></FONT><FONT size=2></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>I have read this is now included in the Kernel.</FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>I have a bigger problem. I have an old kernel and I have installed Vodafone package. But I cannot download dependencias, because I have no Internet connection. This is circular Internet dependency hell.</FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>And there is not an easy way to list packages installed / broken in a Debian box to upload it to a website and obtain a list of link of packages to download (i.e. in other OS computer) to later install in Debian (or other Unice).</FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>Regards</FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>Pedro.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>