Intermittent Mobile Broadband prob

[swashplate]

Hello

In the last week I have noticed that sometimes my Mobile Broadband connection just goes off without me doing anything! I have credit on the dongle account, so it isn't that.

I'm using fedora 14 on an acer aspire one netbook. Dongle is a Huawei E160 on o2 here in the UK

Kernel is 2.6.35.11-83.i686.fc14

Sometimes unplugging and replugging the usb dongle works. Othertimes, I have to leave it out for several hours. It does seem to happen daily, though.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

[ozjd]

I've noticed a similar thing with the same modem. I put it down to network issues though as it happens in some particular locations and rarely in others.
Unplugging and replugging usually works but I need to restart it manually.

[sej7278]

i've seen a similar thing - to get an initial connection up i sometimes have to keep unplugging/replugging the dongle in.

i think its something to do with usb_modeswitch, a friend has the same problem on gentoo.