Comment 3 for bug 348861

ok, the culprit is that bInterfaceClass is "8 Mass Storage" (on lsusb -v output). So I need to reset that somehow, and the jaunty kernel doesn't have the infrastructure to do that automatically, found on 2.6.29:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/usb/2.6.28/usb-unusual-dev-for-option-n.v.-zerocd-modems.patch

but there are tools to get past that.