was 'usb-dev' tried? on ubuntu I had a 3 modem, and once you do a "apt-get install usb-dev" it suddenly was recognised and came to life..
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
