While doing my new job at Jharsuguda I am also introducing people to Ubuntu Linux and many people are using it booting from USB stick. BSNL provides Micromax USB modem for net connection and I had specific request from one person yesterday to help him set it up on Ubuntu. I brought his modem home and tested it as following.
While googling for this modem I discovered that usb_modeswitch was necessary to detect it as modem instead of mass storage device. I downloaded the latest version of usb-modeswitch and usb-modeswitch-data from Debian repositories. Then I proceeded as follows:
When I plugged in the Modem it got mounted as a CD. I got its vendor and product ID (thro lsusb) and unmounted it:
$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 1c9e:f000
$ eject /dev/sr1
I found the configuration file for ID 1c9e:f000 in /etc/usb_modeswitch.d/
Since I did not want the configuration on my machine I simply used it:
$ sudo usb_modeswitch -c /etc/usb_modeswitch.d/1c9e:f000
The modeswitch reported success I got the new ID for the device:
$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 1c9e:9605
I inserted the driver thro:
sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x1c9e product=0x9605
and the Network Manager detected it as BSNL Mobile Broadband device using the same set up which I use for the Mobile.
There is a wonderful script Sakis 3G for doing all this automatically.
Update on 12th May 2012: I have posted today about using this modem on Ubuntu 12.04 and it is entirely different. Click here to read.
While googling for this modem I discovered that usb_modeswitch was necessary to detect it as modem instead of mass storage device. I downloaded the latest version of usb-modeswitch and usb-modeswitch-data from Debian repositories. Then I proceeded as follows:
When I plugged in the Modem it got mounted as a CD. I got its vendor and product ID (thro lsusb) and unmounted it:
$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 1c9e:f000
$ eject /dev/sr1
I found the configuration file for ID 1c9e:f000 in /etc/usb_modeswitch.d/
Since I did not want the configuration on my machine I simply used it:
$ sudo usb_modeswitch -c /etc/usb_modeswitch.d/1c9e:f000
The modeswitch reported success I got the new ID for the device:
$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 1c9e:9605
I inserted the driver thro:
sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x1c9e product=0x9605
and the Network Manager detected it as BSNL Mobile Broadband device using the same set up which I use for the Mobile.
There is a wonderful script Sakis 3G for doing all this automatically.
Update on 12th May 2012: I have posted today about using this modem on Ubuntu 12.04 and it is entirely different. Click here to read.
4 comments:
You're great sir, ji. You solve my problem in a second. You're great.......
I'm your student from right now.
You are welcome.
can you give me the download link for both files individually. i m confused k kaun c version download kru???
so plzz help me..I m using Ubuntu 10.04
Download links are already there in the main post. For usb-modeswitch you need to scroll down to the table with heading "Download usb-modeswitch" and click on applicable Architecture for your machine e.g. if your machine has intel chip and you are using 32 bit version of Ubuntu click on i386. For usb-modeswitch-data just click on server nearest to you. For installation just click on usb-modeswitch-data .deb and then on usb-modeswitch .deb file.
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