Huawei E1552 not recognized on maverick

Binary package hint: network-manager

The Huawei E1552 is not recognized any more on maverick. It was recognized perfectly under Karmic (9.10), problems under Lucid (10.04) in combination with other modems (see Bug #627883) and now does not work at all. - Situation with mobile internet sticks getting continously worse although those mobile USB modems get more and more used.

Installation of usb-modeswitch does not help any more (see also Bug #561051).

Modem signature:
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 12d1:1446 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E1552 (HSPA modem)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: network-manager 0.8.1+git.20100810t184654.ab580f4-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Thu Sep 9 17:44:47 2010
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta i386 (20100901.1)
IpRoute:
 10.0.0.0/24 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 10.0.0.6 metric 2
 169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan0 scope link metric 1000
 default via 10.0.0.138 dev wlan0 proto static
Keyfiles: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: network-manager