I should have added this, the problem is some usb 3G modems are designed to mount as a cd-rom drive in windows, some times mac, so it can install the need drivers and software automatically. After it installs the software sends a telnet command to the modem to tell it to switch to modem mode. The problem is this software isn't made for Linux and thus nothing is there to tell the modem to switch from cd-rom mode into modem mode, that is what usb-modeswitch does. I know right now it works on this specific model, but every modem that does this has a different command to switch so usb-modeswitch also has a data file to make it easy to update the commands.
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