John, If your modem is still Codec: Motorola Si3054 Address: 1 Vendor Id: 0x10573057, you could do either. There is also at least one success report for your chipset under DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.10" with 2.6.31 kernels. MarvS On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:21 PM, John Bubon <jmb8000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Do you expect to have modem support for later kernels above 2.6.28 in the > near future? > > In April support for UBUNTU 8.10 will discontinue. Would I be better to > upgrade to UBUNTU 9.4 (kernel 2.6.28) with support until October 2010, or > drop back to UBUNTU 8.4 with support until April 2011? > > Thanks > John >