Version 0.4 is out, unfortunately nothing in NEWS and I couldn't find any announcement :(
Bumped it locally and works with Huawei E1552 modem. PS. It would be nice if modemmanager RDEPENDS on usb_modeswitch package or at least mentions it in some kind of message.
+*modemmanager-0.4 (08 Jul 2010) + + 08 Jul 2010; Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org> + +modemmanager-0.4.ebuild: + Bump to 0.4, new use-flag 'policykit', remove static libs and .la files, + fix deps, add elog about usb_modeswitch, add dist-version, add support for + ppp-2.4.5 (if/when it's added), fixes bug 326605 + Closing FIXED, thanks for reporting :-) --- As a side-note, there is no way we're going to add an RDEPEND on usb_modeswitch. (a) It's an orphaned package (maintainer-needed) (b) It calls a TCL script whenever a device is plugged in (wtf?) (c) There is no reason to force TCL on the systems of all our users Is there an alternative package that can be used? Although, to be honest, the functionality in usb_modeswitch should go into modemmanager. You should file an upstream bug about it. :)