In contrariety what I wrote in the past Ubuntu 9.10 didn’t ship with usb_modeswitch after all. I don’t know why it was not included, but anyway Timo Jyrinki is now trying to stir up some discussion to get usb_modeswitch included in Ubuntu 10.04.
I also wanted to give him a hand, so I wrote to USB_ModeSwitch forums hoping that something could come out of this. I only wish I had time to work on this my self, but as always, I don’t.