On 2012-07-10 12:47, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Lindsay Sprinter wrote:
I use Virgin moble broadband using the 12gig for $149 plan. The modem being a Huawei E1762.
I also used a USB 3g dongle for a while, IIRC it was this one. Making it work was reasonably straightforward pppd configuration, once I stole the secret magic AT handshaking from a post on this list (thanks, btw).
It didn't have split-personality thing where the device pretends to be a CD-ROM until you say "the driver is installed, now present as a modem". IIRC there is a utility in Debian to force that, but I don't remember its name.
mattcen@andy:tmp$ aptitude show usb-modeswitch Package: usb-modeswitch New: yes State: not installed Version: 1.1.4-2 Priority: extra Section: comm Maintainer: Didier Raboud <didier@raboud.com> Uncompressed Size: 180 k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3), libusb-0.1-4 (>= 2:0.1.12), tcl | tclsh, usb-modeswitch-data (>= 20100127) Suggests: comgt, wvdial Description: mode switching tool for controlling "flip flop" USB devices Several new USB devices have their proprietary Windows drivers onboard, especially WAN dongles. When plugged in for the first time, they act like a flash storage and start installing the driver from there. If the driver is already installed, the storage device vanishes and a new device, such as an USB modem, shows up. This is called the "ZeroCD" feature. On Debian, this is not needed, since the driver is included as a Linux kernel module, such as "usbserial". However, the device still shows up as "usb-storage" by default. usb-modeswitch solves that issue by sending the command which actually performs the switching of the device from "usb-storage" to "usbserial". This package contains the binaries and the brother scripts. Homepage: http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/ Tags: admin::hardware, hardware::usb, implemented-in::c, implemented-in::tcl, interface::commandline, role::program, use::configuring, use::driver -- Regards, Matthew Cengia