Comment 5 for bug 449394

So what's going on with this bug ? It's still unassigned, and as has been noted in 446146 it's not a duplicate. The importance is undecided and I would say it's a critical bug. Any non-technical user using a Huawei E220 with Karmic has zero web access. They will not even be able to do a search and find the rmmod trick.

As an E220 user myself, I've actually had to leave Ubuntu for the first time in five years and install another distro. Spending anything up to 40 minutes inserting and removing a dongle while rmmodding in the hope I can get a signal, only to have it crash out again five minutes later due to useless 3g networks and having to go through the entire rigmarole again is utterly farcical.