When I signed up for the telephone operator Tele2’s HSDPA/HSUPA service called Mobile Broadband Maxi I got a Huawei E169 modem.1 After I tested it on Windows XP (I must confess, I keep one installation of Windows for all eventualities), I naturally wanted to get it working on my laptop running Ubuntu. Based on an earlier experience of installing a CDMA modem on Ubuntu, I expected some trouble before geting it to work.
