Re: Strange problem with MF627 and NetworkManager

[Rick Jones <rick activeservice co uk>]

--On Friday, October 02, 2009 07:46:39 +0100 Alex Buell <alex buell munted org uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 14:37 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Just to clarify, are all your problems happening when connecting, or
> > is the modem often not even found by NM?
> 
> I think it's more to do with leaving option and usbserial modules loaded
> when the modem is unplugged. I've found that if I explicitly unload
> these two modules before plugging the modem into the USB port, Network
> Manager doesn't take so many re-tries to connect, this morning it only
> took two tries to connect!

My usbserial doesn't load at all, only Option. That stays loaded after first use, but doesn't cause any problems. Do you have a udev rule loading usbserial? I used to need that in the previous Ubuntu, but not now 'cos the device is recognised internally.