Usb_modeswitch
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I'm trying to use usb_modeswitch to get my Huawei E3372 4G USB Modem to connect with the Internet and am following some Linux guide
I realise that the guide is for Linux and Raspberry Pi, but assume the principles should be similar and if I can get it working in that environment, a similar procedure should work on a laptop running FreeBSD…
One query I have is about the usb_modeswitch database /usr/local/share/usb_modeswitch... Is this a universal database where entries for vendor/product would be the same irrespective of OS? And if an entry is missing could I copy it from one system to another?
One strange thing I found was that on Linux lsusb showed the vendor/product as
12d1:1506
but on FreeBSD it was
12d1:14fe
not sure how it could be different.... Aren't these values embedded in the device somewhere?
FreeBSD does contain the file
/usr/local/share/usb_modeswitch/12d1:14feThe contents of which are
# Huawei E352 (T-Mobile NL), E173s (Variant) TargetVendor=0x12d1 TargetProductList="1506,150f,151d,1c1e" HuaweiNewMode=1
I notice that I do have a
/usr/local/etc/usb_modeswitch.confthe contents of which are
# Configuration for the usb_modeswitch package, a mode switching tool for # USB devices providing multiple states or modes # # Evaluated by the wrapper script /usr/sbin/usb_modeswitch_dispatcher # # To enable an option, set it to "1", "yes" or "true" (case doesn't matter) # Everything else counts as "disable" # Disable automatic mode switching globally (e.g. to access the original # install storage) DisableSwitching=0 # Disable check for MBIM module presence and configuration globally (to aid # special embedded environments). Available as per-device parameter # 'NoMBIMCheck' DisableMBIMGlobal=0 # Enable logging (results in a extensive report file in /var/log, named # "usb_modeswitch_<interface-name>" and probably others EnableLogging=0 # Optional increase of "delay_use" for the usb-storage driver; there are hints # that a recent kernel default change to 1 sec. may lead to problems, particu- # larly with USB 3.0 ports. Set this to at least 3 (seconds) in that case. # Does nothing if the current system value is same or higher #SetStorageDelay=4 # If the configuration for your Huawei modem uses the standard switching method, # you can globally set an alternative method here which provides a different mode: # either plain serial PPP (for older modems) or NCM which integrates nicely # with recent Linux distributions, possibly avoiding configuration through a # modem built-in web page. All other modems are not affected. # Available as per-device parameter 'AltHuaweiMode' HuaweiAltModeGlobal=0</interface-name>
I have no idea what the source of this file is and whether I should append something to it based on my USB vendor/product.
Can anyone advise?