** Summary changed: - USB Broadband HSDPA Dongle ZTE MF637 doesn't connect + USB Broadband ZTE HSUPA Dongle MF637 doesn't connect
** Description changed: Please bear with me as I am a n00b at Xubuntu (Xubuntu 8.10 Intrepid as - far as I can tell) + far as I can tell) running an XFCE desktop. I have a ZTE MF637 Broadband dongle which I cannot connect to the internet with. I see that there have been problems with the older MF622, MF626, MF628 and MF632 but I don't see anything about the MF637. I've been trying to get mine working using the same solutions but have come to a dead end where i don't see what the modification for (gedit /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-modem.fdi) file which was reported in bug #305968. On top of that, I tried to do the modification for what IS in the file and I don't seem to have permissions to do it and I don't know how to give myself those permissions. What I am hoping is that these bugs are already resolved, but if they are, I don't understand how they still exist since I only downloaded and installed my Xubuntu 8.10 Intrepid about 18 days ago. A little background on my problem: I bought the USB dongle to connect to the internet faster than what I have now. Currently I am connecting through a Motorola C380 and using it as a modem via USB. It is only getting about 10kps at max so I bought this dongle hoping it would work just as easily but unfortunately not the case. I went online to try to see if there were any packages i could install via Synaptic Package Manager that might help. I've installed a few which managed to make the Dongle's light go blue (3G operational) instead of the steady red (communication error). With this, i thought I was making some progress but no luck after that. I've downloaded a few other packages but none seem to help. They were "3G managing" packages for 3G dongles. Originally I thought the issue was that my computer was not even recognizing the dongle because when i went to Terminal and punched in LSUSB, or DMESG, i never got any change. The other thing is that I am using a PCMCIA to USB adapter card for my USB devices. These devices all work fine but when I plug in the dongle, the PCMCIA card freezes up and I lose communication from it. I have to remove the dongle and reset my PCMCIA card and then the devices work again. I think thats all the information I can tell. I don't know of anything else to do. + + ----------------------------- + + Here is a bit of an update as I have been trying to get this to work. It + turns out that part of the problem is the dongle's interface with my + Nexxtec PCMCIA card. When the dongle is plugged into it, it freezes the + card up so it does not show up on the LSUSB commanded device list. + + I plugged the dongle into my replicator USB port (I am using an IBM T43 + with a replicator dock) and I got a device id --- Bus 002 Device 006: ID + 19d2:2000. Now checking this against my 10-modem.fdi file, this vendor + ID is correct as it comes up with ZTE or ONDA, but the device ID is + wrong as it should be 0002. I tried a couple of different things + including modifying the 10-modem.fdi file but to no avail. The computer + does not recognize the device as anything other than the "Bus 002 Device + 006: ID 19d2:2000" identification. + + Next, I did some research with a lot of help from another fellow Linux + user and came across USB_modeswitch. I already had the file installed + but had to change the conf file. This is the part I changed (or de- + commented): + + ######################################################## + # ZTE MF628 + # + # Captured with "usbmon". Has a micro SD slot which can be + # activated alternatively + # + # Contributor: Alvaro Lopes <alvieboy at alvie dot com> + + DefaultVendor= 0x19d2 + DefaultProduct= 0x2000 + + # To modem mode: + + TargetVendor= 0x19d2 + TargetProduct= 0x0015 + + MessageEndpoint=0x08 + MessageContent="5553424312345678000000000000061b000000030000000000000000000000" + + # To SD slot mode: + + ;TargetVendor= 0x05c6 + ;TargetProduct= 0x2001 + + ;MessageEndpoint=0x08 + ;MessageContent="55534243123456782000000080000a86010101180101010101000000000000" + + ;ResponseEndpoint=7 + + + ######################################################## + + With that done, I believe that I should have been able to enact the + usb_modeswitch to engage the Broadband part of the dongle and disengage + the ZeroCD (false pendrive) portion. Unfortunately that did not work + either so the next step was to Blacklist the usb-storage by (sudo gedit + /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist). I did that hoping that it would bring the + USB storage back to the default but that didn't work either. After + trying that and retrying the usb_modeswitch, i keep getting the + notorious (-2) error which states that the device cannot unlock or + communicate. This is the error. + + sudo usb_modeswitch + + * usb_modeswitch: tool for controlling "flip flop" mode USB devices + * Version 0.9.6 (C) Josua Dietze 2009 + * Works with libusb 0.1.12 and probably other versions + + Looking for target devices + No target device found + Looking for default devices + Found default devices (1) + Prepare switching, accessing latest device + Looking for active default driver to detach it + No driver found. Device probably not initialized. Trying to continue ... + Setting up communication with device + Trying to send the message + Sending the message returned error -2, trying to continue ... + -> See /proc/bus/usb/devices (or call lsusb) for changes. Bye + + Can anyone help me here? I know there is a way to get this working, I + just need to find it. -- USB Broadband ZTE HSUPA Dongle MF637 doesn't connect https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/369311 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
