FC5 kernel update to 2.6.17-1.2139_FC5 causing USB broadband problems

[Motor]

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:05:08 +0100, William Murray wrote:

>>Motor wrote:
>>My PC uses a Thompson/Alcatel Speedtouch USB 330 modem to connect to
>>Tiscali broadband in the UK. It's been working fine until the recent
>>kernel update to version: kernel-2.6.17-1.2139_FC5.

> Yes! My USB modem doesn't work. It connects (with eciadsl) and seems to
> set up a route properly, but the 'host' command fails immediately after
> and then it locks up, 100% solid. Needs to be powered down by hand, and
> I have reverted to an earlier kernel.

I opened a bug on my problem:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196560