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I've recently upgraded the firmware in my iCON 7.2, which broke usb_modeswitch and PPP. Apparently it's not very efficient to have transfer speeds of up to 7.2Mb/s on a serial link, so the device manufacturer (Option) decided that a new kind of interface is needed. This new interface is a combination of a serial port for control, and a network interface for data transfer.

This also meant I had to install a new driver ("hso"), and while I was looking for that, I also found a new, better tool to switch the iCON from "fake CD-ROM" mode into UMTS modem mode. This tool (called rezero) doesn't seem to have the race conditions that the old tool had.

I've uploaded a package of the rezero utility to my PPA. It includes a udev script, so the tool gets run automatically as soon as you plug in an Option device that thinks it's a CD-ROM drive. More information about the PPA can be found on my PPA page on Launchpad.

Of course, it would be great if this could be added to Ubuntu itself (along with the hso driver, I'll file a bug for that), but I don't have the time to figure out how to do that at the moment :)