Thank you all for suggestions. Just installed 14.04, and it just worked plug-n-play:: no activity from my side! if i remember, for 12.04, the error was in usbcore/usbserial (according to dmesg). On 7/4/14, David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I've already told him (off the list) to upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04. >> Ubuntu 12.04 which is an LTS distro is hopeless behind in drivers and >> their usb_modeswitch >> version is two and a half years old. >> The Ubuntu maintainers seems to have their own definition of LTS. > > Not as back as RHEL5 (2.6.18 based, extended support through to 2020 :-) > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html