On 23/11/18 at 12:02, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > On 11/22/18 4:28 PM, ael wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 03:10:15PM +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote: >>> >>> What is needed to install so that Devuan Jessie recognizes Huawei >>> modems: >>> >>> - Huawei Mobile Connect - 3G modem (Wintendo sees it as such) >>> - Huawei USB modem E3372 4G >>> - Huawei Mobile Wifi router E5573C 4G >> > > <snip> > >> Above was on Debian. I imagine that your dongles are more recent: maybe >> quite different. >> >> I wrote some notes on getting a huwai dongle going, but I don't have >> them to hand just now. I think that most of the information was on line. >> > > Well, yesterday I visited some ISP shops here and they mostly offered > dongles or routers as the second and third above, E3372 4G and/or > E5573C 4G. And in the veterans club here they had an older dongle > (i.e. the first one above, 3G) that was earlier used at some Wintendo > machine. I inserted it for test into a dual-boot Wintendo / Devuan > Jessie 64bit and nothing happened. (On the other side, Wintendo > installed drivers and app from files located within the dongle memory.) > > I found some info on the net that such dongles might require to be > switched from the bulk memory stick mode to the modem mode, or > something like that, to be able to activate in Linux.
Right, many USB modems show up as something different than a networking device when they are plugged-in. I haven't used any of them for a long time, but I remember many of them show up as a CDROM device which carries the Windows drivers and/or some Windows utility. The actual modem shows up after the CDROM device is unmounted or ejected. IIRC many others instead show up as serial devices and only start operating as a networking device after they're fed a firmware image. The package modemmanager is supposed to take care of the correct initialization of a number of known and supported modems using udev's rules (the ASCII package install 18 such rules). Yet, I think sometimes human intervention is still needed, and of course several USB modems (as well as PCMCIA/CardBus ones and some WiFi dongles and Access Points) are partially, poorly or not supported at all. Alessandro -- Alessandro Selli <alessandrose...@linux.com> VOIP SIP: dhatarat...@ekiga.net Chiave firma e cifratura PGP/GPG signing and encoding key: BA651E4050DDFC31E17384BABCE7BD1A1B0DF2AE
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