Got some information which may help to debug this. I ran vmc from the terminal, not the GUI, and captured the stderr output to a file, attached.
** Attachment added: "vodalog" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36621084/vodalog -- Several Huawei USB dongle don't work with kernel 2.6.31-12.40 (2.6.31.1 update related) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/446146 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs