Comment 95 for bug 305968

This seems fixed in 10.10.

I picked a MF662 a few months ago when I unsuccessfully tried to get a MF622 working on Lucid. But the reception on the MF662 is terrible compared to the MF622 (and the antenna connector is wired only for GSM), so today I decided to take another shot. I plugged the MF622 and booted up; it was recognized properly and KDE's network manager automatically established my already setup connection.

Unplugging and plugging back in also works, any times in any port:

Dec 23 21:54:49 server usb_modeswitch: switching 19d2:2000 (Qualcomm, Incorporated: USB ZTE Storage)
Dec 23 21:55:18 server kernel: [ 2985.540194] usb 6-1: USB disconnect, address 4
Dec 23 21:55:23 server kernel: [ 2990.821315] usb 6-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
Dec 23 21:55:23 server kernel: [ 2990.993420] option 6-1:1.0: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected

Though as you can see it takes around 30 secs for usb_modeswitch to do it's trick, and another 30 until it appears in the network manager, but this was the same with the MF662.

Curiously, lsusb reports the device as " ID 19d2:2000 ONDA Communication S.p.A. ZTE MF627/MF628/MF628+ HSDPA" before usb_modeswitch, and as "ID 19d2:0001 ONDA Communication S.p.A." after, but who cares, it works! ;)