On Sat, 2013-03-02 at 11:25 +0000, Richard Betham wrote: > Image: debian-wheezy-DI-rc1-i386-DVD-1.iso > Boot-method: <DVD> > Date: <01.03.2013> > > Machine: <NEC Powermate> > > > Installer failed to detect mobile broadband device on USB. > I suggest that the kernel module called 'option' should have been > installed, but it was not. [...] > After boot-install I gave the command : > echo 'option' >> /etc/modules > then rebooted the computer on IDE-0. > This seemed to cause it to detect the Huawei correctly [...] The module is installed, but cannot be used during installation (configuring wireless modems is pretty complex). Explicitly loading a module should have no effect - if there is any device it could work with, that would have caused it to be loaded already by udev. (There are some exceptions, but option is not one of them.) So I don't think this configuration change made the difference. Can you send a kernel boot log (/var/log/dmesg) and the output of 'lsusb'? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
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