[PATCH] Ignore Huawei E169/E620 USB GPRS modem

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 11:48:31AM +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Donnerstag, 9. Oktober 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Isn't this common? The mass storage component provides a mechanism for
> > shipping drivers. The kernel needs fixing up to reconfigure the device
> > to present as a modem.
> 
> There are some UMTS modems which provide a storage interface with some MByte 
> space to store driver or some software. That HAL detect these storage 
> interfaces as a storage device isn't wrong but the fact that these get 
> detected as CD-ROM is maybe false.
> 
> Btw. IIRC you can tell the device with some magic tools/commands to change to 
> mode to not offer the storage interface.

Yeah, and the kernel drivers are being extended to do that. I think we 
should probably remove the existing Huawei entry from 
20-broken-usb-sticks.fdi.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org