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I had a Huawei mobile broadband dongle that didn’t worked in my PC with Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.

Sure the other USB devices may be solved with this.

I entered the following command in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install usb-modeswitch

And after the restart the device started working. And similarly another friend’s dongle of different company also worked with the similar process.

Lucid Lynx is great but is has some small problem like CD-ROM not mount automatically. However like all other simple problems, this can also be solved easily. Each time you insert CD-ROM, you can type in the following in Terminal and CD-ROM will be mounted.

sudo mkdir /media/cdrom; sudo mount /dev/cdrom/ /media/cdrom/

If this works, you may want to mount the CD-ROM automatically. You can do this by setting up your computer try to mount CD-ROM drive every minute. This can be done by:

sudo crontab -e

If it is the first time you are launching the command, it will ask you to choose editor, choose nano. Now enter the following line in the editor:

* * * * * mkdir /media/cdrom; mount /dev/cdrom/ /media/cdrom/

Then press “Ctrl+O” and press “Enter” to save and then “Ctrl+X” to close.

Now when you enter CD-ROM, just wait a while and the CD-ROM will be automatically mounted within one minute.

Please fill free to ask any questions regarding this issue.