Bug 686719 - Please add support for Huawei E1750 3G USB modem
Summary: Please add support for Huawei E1750 3G USB modem
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 11.4
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Mobile Devices (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Enhancement with 5 votes (vote)
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Reported: 2011-04-11 20:00 UTC by Mikael Eriksson
Modified: 2017-08-11 13:22 UTC (History)
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Description Mikael Eriksson 2011-04-11 20:00:55 UTC 
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Please add the support for Huawei E1750 3G USB modem. It  requires adding some configurations to etc/udev/rules.d/usb_modeswitch.rules and etc/usb_modeswitch.conf.

http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/bb/viewtopic.php?t=217&sid=5ee7e6cca0595ba97e1377365eb366e1

"Huawei E1750 3G USB modem

to etc/udev/rules.d/usb_modeswitch.rules:
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="1446", SYSFS{idVendor}=="12d1", RUN+="/usr/sbin/usb_modeswitch"

to etc/usb_modeswitch.conf:

DefaultVendor= 0x12d1
DefaultProduct= 0x1446

TargetVendor = 0x12d1
TargetProduct= 0x1001

MessageContent="55534243000000000000000000000011060000000000000000000000000000"
MessageEndpoint=0x01
CheckSuccess=5

credit: http://ubuntu-se.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=223&t=41986&p=341147

How to keep available disk from built-n micro-SD card reader simultaneously with modem?"

After following the steps above my USB-modem works like a charm.



Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Forgotten User Z84gBQWuze 2011-09-14 13:07:56 UTC 
This was included in 11.3. So not really an enhancement, is it?
Comment 2 David Kerkhof 2011-09-14 15:37:30 UTC 
This was one of the reasons I reverted to 11.3, I badly needed a working mobile connection and could only get it to work in 11.3.
Comment 3 Olaf Hering 2017-08-11 13:22:41 UTC 
This may work in Tumbleweed