ZTE MF110?

[Alan Pope]

On 26 June 2011 11:13, Tony Pursell <ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> Just out interest, what is the usb modeswitcher tool needed for?  And
> what does it do?  My 3g modem just works after being set up in 'Edit
> Connections'.
>
>

"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."

http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/usb-modeswitch

Al.