usb 3g modem

[atrias]

hello

 

I have installed legacy jessie server on my orangepi pc and I am trying to make a 3g usb modem work

 

I have installed usb-modeswitch but it seems that my usb modem is not switched to modem state

the modem is a k3806-z with vendor id 19d2 and product id 1013
when i plug it on my desktop linux pc (fedora) it gets switched to product id 1015
but this does not happen in the orangepi

is there anything that I should do for modeswitching to work ?

[atrias]

any idea someone please?

some hints maybe

[atrias]

single person topic

for anyone interested the answer was found here

http://parliamodi-ubuntu.blogspot.gr/2011/12/internet-key-onda-k3806-z-su-archbang-e.html

I was missing the modemmanager package

It was a debian "problem" and not armbian specific

[help40]

I think "modemmanager" have nothing to do with your problem I mean switching .... and if your modem is not in modemswitch DB you can add rule manually 

[atrias]

thank you for your contribution

well while having only usb-modeswitch installed the mode switching was not working

after installing modemmanager it worked

i did not have to do any manual configuration

perhaps installing this package added some usb-modeswitch entries so that no manual entry was required

i do not really know

the fact though is that now the 3g modem is usable

[help40]

may be this one https://github.com/digidietze/usb-modeswitch-data/blob/master/usb_modeswitch.d/19d2:1013

found it googling  "usb_modeswitch 19d2 1013" .....

you can test it if you have "spare" linux box or SD card

 

my linux box has this rule too ...  (slackware 14.0) 

cat /usr/share/usb_modeswitch/19d2:1013

# Vodafone (ZTE) K3806-Z

TargetVendor=  0x19d2
TargetProduct= 0x1015

MessageContent="5553424312345678000000000000061b000000020000000000000000000000"

NeedResponse=1
NoDriverLoading=1

 

[atrias]

I added this config in a debian 8.3 live

root@debian:~# cat /etc/usb_modeswitch.d/19d2\:1013 
# Vodafone (ZTE) K3806-Z

TargetVendor=  0x19d2
TargetProduct= 0x1015

MessageContent="5553424312345678000000000000061b000000020000000000000000000000"

NeedResponse=1
NoDriverLoading=1

but after plugging in the modem it did not change mode

 

then I installed modemmanager and modeswitching to 19d2:1015 worked without any config changes

 

then I removed modemmanager and modeswitching stopped working again

 

It really seems that this package is required for this specific usb modem to work