ZTE MF110?

[Tony Pursell]

On Sun, 2011-06-26 at 11:18 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thanks Al.

Tony