On 06/06/2011 08:36 AM, Josua Dietze wrote:
> Am 06.06.2011 00:59, schrieb Christian Kastner:
>> usb-modeswitch no longer detects devices when the device is already
>> plugged in
>> at boot time. When the device is plugged later, into an already
>> running system,
>> everything works as expected. With version 1.1.4 from Squeeze,
>> everything works
>> fine in both cases.
> 
> Can you test with the upstream source package of 1.1.7? There was a
> similar report before where we circled in on the Debian patches, but the
> reporter was not able to follow through.

I'll try to do this tonight.

>> The device in question is a Huawei E1750. It is quasi-permanently
>> plugged into
>> my gateway router as a fallback in case my main ISP connection goes
>> down, but I
>> can reproduce this issue with my desktop machine too.
> 
> There might be an additional quirk. The latest data packages are using a
> different switching command for Huawei devices, by request from Huawei
> engineers. It turned out that some modems are getting a different target
> ID with that command which may not be included with the respective
> config file.
> 
> I suspect that may be the reason why you don't get the "gsmmodem" link.

Ow, my bad -- the /dev/gsmmodem link *is* created. The output I reported
for 1.1.7 was probably just copy-pasta, please ignore that part and
sorry about that.

Christian

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