Motorola W230 USB problems

[dirkt]

I have trouble connecting my Motorola W230 to my linux box. When switched off, it appears as a device with ID 0451:d004 and two bulk endpoints, so the hardware works. When switched on, the phone asks if it should connect to USB as a storage device for the SD card, as decribed in the manual. When answering yes, I get a "USB device not responding, giving up (error=-32)" message in the syslog and the phone also gives an error message.

Any ideas? Thanks for any help.

[yorik]

Strange, I have the same phone and here it works fine (ubuntu hardy)... Can you check if other USB storage devices (pendrives, etc) connect correctly?

[dirkt]

It turned out the problem was an old driver for the USB mainboard controllers, even though it had worked with all other USB devices before. I also found out that you can use the W230 as a modem after patching cdc-acm; however, the protocol the W230 uses is non-standard, and it looks like the kernel people refuse to accept that into their "clean" driver. Patching moto_modem.c didn't work. You can read the whole thread here:Gmane Loom information how to use the 0451:d004 device (I guess it's for flashingand/or accessing the hardware directly) would still be very much appreciated