On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:03:23 +0200 "D.S. Ljungmark" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > I'm having some issues with usb-modeswitch + Huawei modems which are > somewhat perplexing. > > Running OpenWRT ( Backfire from svn ) and hooking the modem up all > works. Modeswitch happens, magic works, all three modem devices > appear. > > Soft-rebooting the machine (so that the USB port is never without > power) works, modem comes back online afterwards. > > However, cold-booting the machine makes the hot/cold-plug events never > happen, (or maybe it's racing against other kernel modules?) and I end > up with an unusable 3g-modem. Re-seating the hardware makes the > hotplug event happen properly. > > Now, I want to actually solve this, not just magically patch around it > in /etc/rc.local by calling the proper usb_modeswitch invocation. > > So, where do I go from here, how do I get the usb-coldplug to actually > function properly in OpenWRT? Do you happen to be using block-extroot? If so the USB drivers are probably being loaded during preinit, and at present we don't coldplug during regular init. The fix is somewhat involved and it'd going to be some time before we have a solution. Regards, Daniel -- <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is. GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org
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