Re: Huawei E1820

[Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost>]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 09:26:44PM +0000, Antti Kantee wrote:
> The problem with these devices is usually trying to convince it to be a
> modem.  The basic recipe it to do a websearch for the command the modem
> requires and, if that's not available from the driver, add it.  I
> restructured the u3g driver in -current earlier this year to make it
> easier, but I can't remember if that stuff is in 5.1.
> 
> Meanwhile, some webpage suggested this AT command to turn the device into
> a modem permanently.  Maybe you can try running it from OS X and see if
> it helps?
> 
> AT+ZOPRT=5
> AT+ZCDRUN=8
> 
> (of course it would still be nice to see the driver patched to handle
> this)


On Linux there's a tool called usb_modeswitch to switch it between umass
and umodem mode.

(the umass mode is exposed initially to install the proper drivers for
Windows and Mac.)


        Geert



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