I'm a bit curious on automating this. Should I just put a roughly 5-7 second sleep in my shellscript before I make it run usb_modeswitch again (making sure it has a bit of time to load drivers and whatnot) or can I just call them twice in rapid succession?
To avoid the modem switching back that is ...

I'll have to admit to having skimmed some parts of the the text and thus not having read the start of the .conf. Sorry about that.

I've no idea which module is required but my Ubuntu Netboox Remix of Jaunty with 2.6.28-11-generic worked like a charm.

I updated my system to a modern Ubuntu where mobile modems are actually detected after switching.

I found "sudo usb_modeswitch -v 0x0fce -p 0xd0e1 -O 1" on a blog and it worked like a charm. Then I realized it started switching back, running the command once more after the initial switch seems to ...

Hmm, haven't gotten alerted that my favorite topic was updated yet.

Initial plug-in:

[ 229.990023] usb 5-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
[ 230.123625] usb 5-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 230.184854] scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices ...

I couldn't see any solutions in this thread, if I missed something I apologise.

When using modeswitch 0.9.7 which has a configuration for MD400 I have no success even after uncommenting the correct configuration. This is on some eee-version of Ubuntu 8.04, I think I recall it being ubuntu-eee, but ...