On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Gakuru Alex
<alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
If you've been using sudo modprobe usbserial vendor='Hex'
product='Hex' to identify your USB device (Orange,Safaricom, or Zain)
you may find some modems are not automatically id'ed by new Ubuntu
9.04 'Jaunty Jackalope'
A workaround. If you upgrade (as I did), boot with your old kernel. It works!
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/350904>
Booting with the old kernel doesn't affect the system at all?
Can't the new kernel be recompiled to include the necessary modules from the old one? (Backwards compat).
Ok, I am no Linux guy, so I am shooting in the dark.