Thanks a lot for this extraordinarily thorough information!

No problems - to be honest, I had gone through the usb snooping with the intention of creating a tool before I remembered about usb_modeswitch... (My initial thought was that the daemon was part of the ethernet emulation...)

When I ...

So I got a Vodafone K3773 usb modem the other day. It's a Huawei "HiLink" -based device which has a linux "driver" on the virtual cd before modeswitching (although it's officially unsupported), and shows up as a USB ethernet device after modeswitching. Reading through the installer shell script, the ...