As you can read on a previous post of mine, I was, and still am quite pissed at ATI.
However, being forced to choose from upgrading my favourite linux distribution, Kubuntu, to latest stable version 9.04 and loosing the ATI proprietary drivers, or, staying at the old version of kubuntu, but keep the proprietary drivers, Kubuntu won. I was ready to stop using compiz once more :\
Ever since I bought my laptop which is UNFORTUNATELY attached to an ATI card, I’ve had issues running it on Linux! And now you tell me that you’re dropping support!? This laptop is not 2 years old!!!! Now What!?
If I could, believe me, I’d buy a new laptop and would make SURE there wasn’t anything ATI inside, in fact, be sure that you won’t EVER again see a penny from me!!!!
I recently bought a 3G wireless card to use with my laptop, a ZTE, model MF622.
Since the first time I tried linux, also the first time I encountered this kind of problems with my usb ADSL modem, and this being an usb modem also, I knew I was going to have troubles.
At first I tried USB ModeSwitch which has experimental support for ZTE’s MF620 model with no luck. I then followed the instructions on the site to snoop the usb comunication under M$ Win to get the messages being sent to the device so I could mimic that under linux. Still, no luck.
I then tried to code a python script which used the libusb so that I could make the device switch to the modem configuration. Still, no luck.
I spent a lot of time on this subject and then one time I removed the usb_storage module while hal was waiting for the device to settle down and guess what!? After a few seconds, the device changed itself to the modem configuration. All I needed now was to automate this procedure.