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Comment 365 for bug 446146

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madbiologist (me-again) wrote :

Can anyone still having problems with an E220/E270 please try the 2.6.31-17.54 kernel in Karmic-proposed. It pulls in the Linux 2.6.31.6 kernel from upstream, which contains a patch with the following description:

commit e4613c5f3a957475b1f5b011e7833cc2b57b6ed4
Author: Ronnie Furuskog <rofu7 at hotmail.com>
Date: Mon Sep 21 21:20:55 2009 +0200

    USB: option: Patch for Huawei Mobile Broadband E270+ Modem

    commit 0ee3a33a0481c8f5c9edb7a5a02f3c76496d9551 upstream.

    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at suse.de>

I actually read bug #1 some time ago, and I agree with it. The comments get a bit repetitive after a while, but the initial bug report is well written, as are some of the early comments.

However I think the notion of competition is pointless and foolish, not to mention counterproductive. To quote, "War - what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!" Noted thinker, author and speaker Edward de Bono talks about the concept of parallel thinking and the benefits to productivity. There is a bit of a summary at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_thinking , although the way I heard him describe it was more along the lines of "Instead of each party focusing on the things they dislike/disagree with in the other party's ideas/proposals, they look for, focus on and mention the positive things they see in the other party's ideas/proposals, leading to dramatic breakthroughs in solving problems".

To go further, rather than a war, what we need is an outbreak of peace. This is commonly a consequence of an outbreak of love. Instead of being in competition with Windows, I see Ubuntu more as an alternative choice for computer users. As with all alternative choices in life there are pros and cons that need to weighed up when making a choice of operating system. At the moment we still have a bit of a con regarding some Huawei USB modems (although not as bad as previously). I am hopeful that the kernel currently in Karmic-proposed will fix this. However as we all know, Ubuntu and other Linux distributions have many pros.

With love from the home of the Koala to the kernel developers and all the people who have posted in this bug report, from the mad (as in crazy) biologist.