Re: ZTE MF636 USB modem is not supported

[Ondrej Zary]

On Thursday 11 March 2010, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Ole Reier Ulland wrote:
> > I have reported this a while ago to the Mandriva bugzilla, but I cannot
> > see if anyone is doing anything about it. So now I just want to send the
> > link to this e-mail address to get a reply and some understanding.
> >
> > https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=57165
> >
> > [root@Dell_Dim Mine_Filer_1_FAT]# uname -a
> > Linux Dell_Dim 2.6.31.12-desktop-1mnb #1 SMP Tue Jan 26 03:35:36 EST 2010
> > i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz GNU/Linux
> >
> > Is it fixed already maybe? Is there another kernel that I can use?
> >
> > Is there anything else I can do to help this along?
>
> It is likely that your modem will need to have been switched to "serial"
> mode over from the default "storage" mode before it could be used
> (usb_modemswitch is an userspace application to do that for many ZTE
> modems).

Not sure about MF636, but MF637 works with this udev rule:
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="19d2", SYSFS{idProduct}=="2000", RUN+="/usr/sbin/usb_modeswitch --default-vendor 0x19d2 --default-product 0x2000 --message-content 55534243123456782000000080000c85010101180101010101000000000000"

> Could you please post
>
> 1) dmesg once your modem is plugged in
> 2) lsusb -v output for this modem

-- 
Ondrej Zary
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