thanks to you Josh, i took the initiative to learn how to build my own custom kernel. thank you so much again.

a kernel source is what one needs when building a custom kernel. i went to http://www.kernel.org and got myself the stable kernel 3.0 . the whole beginning process did not give me a hard ...

thank you so much josh for getting back to me.
If you see "198f:0220", then your device is in the right mode already. It was switched automatically.

Don't try to switch it again. It is useless.

And don't add your device data to "/etc/usb_modeswitch.conf". If you have gotten advice to do so ...

olderek@old5732Z:~$ sudo lsusb
[sudo] password for olderek:
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 04f3:02f4 Elan ...