F12 and wi-fi dongles

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:34:27 +0100
Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com> wrote:

> As I cannot connect by a Huawei dongle in F12 (on two different
> boxes), I re-installed F11 on a third machine and bam, I was
> immediately on-line (after some modification on usb_modeswitch.conf
> file).
> Digging on different files I could not find any usb_modeswitch.rules
> files in /etc/udev/rules.d
> Is this the reason why the system is not working with wireless dongle????
> It can be a clue also for  Bug 541686 -  Huawei 1692 is not recognized
> as a 3G card with standard file
> Or am I wrong??

Same problem with the Huawei dongle I have here. It sort of worked if I
hand load usb-storage. Unfortunately I hit several other showstopper FC12
bugs (random crashes of kvm etc) that I've not debugging it bug gone back
to a working release.

Try hand loading usb-storage though - it may help