Help huawei u8230 - adb not recognizing in ubuntu 11.10

[junksapiens]

Hi all,

I'm getting the following:

./adb devices
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
List of devices attached
???????????? device

I've followed the developer.android.com/index website, made the rule files and so on.
It is set to USB debug mode as well.

My phone has the android 2.1, kernel 2.6.29-perf

any ideas?

thanks in advance