Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > I'm trying to set up a Huawei E585 pocket wifi device on Ubuntu > 11.04. The device has a USB pid/vid of 12d1:1446 and network-manager > simply doesn't recognise it.
This device is rather confusing. When plugged into the machine lsusb says: 12d1:1446 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E1552 (HSPA modem) but printed on the actual case is Huawei E585. By default it comes up as a USB mass storage device when plugged in. It then needs some magic incantation send via usb_modeswitch to actually switch it into modem mode. Unfortunately, while I have found magic incantations[0] for other modems, I have not been able to find any for this particular device. I am therefore going to suggest to the own of said device that they take it back to Vodafone and get it replaced with something that actually works on Linux. Erik [0] http://www.blah-blah.ch/Mra/HuaweiUmts -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
