[pkg-fso-maint] [debian] usb networking dead after upgrade

[arne anka]

i upgraded about an hour ago, and after a reboot, usb networking was gone.
after an hour of research i did as a desperate attempt

om usb mode device

and there it was.
simple question: what happend? why wasn't the usb not set to device mode  
after a reboot?
on a related not, fsousaged did not start -- having access back, i am  
going to investigate.

the following packages were involved in the upgrade, although i doubt,  
they are responsible:

The following NEW packages will be installed:
   libdrm-glamo1 libnl2
The following packages will be upgraded:
   bash build-essential cpio cpp cpp-4.3 doxygen fso-usaged g++ gcc  
gcc-4.3-base
   gstreamer0.10-alsa libaspell15 libcairo2 libfso-glib0 libfsobasics0  
libfsoframework0
   libfsotransport0 libgirepository1.0-0 libgsm0710-0 libgsm0710mux0
   libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 libkeyutils1 liblzma2 libncurses5  
libncursesw5 libomhacks0
   libpython2.6 libsqlite3-0 libtasn1-3 libthai-data libthai0 libudev0  
libx11-6 libx11-data
   libx11-dev libxcb-render0 libxcb-shm0 libxcb1 libxcb1-dev libxcursor1  
libxext6 libxfixes3
   libxfont1 libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxkbfile1 libxrender1 lxterminal  
module-init-tools
   ncurses-base ncurses-bin omhacks python-gst0.10 python-pkg-resources  
python-setuptools
   python-support python2.6 python2.6-minimal quilt sqlite3 sudo tar udev  
x11-common x11-utils
   x11-xkb-utils xinput xkb-data xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-input-evdev  
xserver-xorg-video-glamo
   xz-utils
73 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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