I have played with this for quite some time. I do not know the exact reason why this works on my setup. What I have found is that usb_modeswitch automatically changes the modem at the moment when dongle is recognized by the system. By default the usb_switchmode sets modem to HiLink and with this add...

I have managed to make it run. What I did is the following: In folder /usr/share/usb_modeswitch you should have the vendor:product pairs for many devices. I have copied file 12d1:1f01 to /etc/usb_modeswitch.d and edited file as follows: # Huawei E353 (3.se) TargetVendor= 0x12d1 TargetProduct= 0x1001...

I have a Huawei E303 and I am quite desperate to make it work in modem mode. lsusb reports device as: ID 12d1:14db Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. But when I try to sudo usb_modeswitch -v 12d1 -p 14db -M "55534243000000000000000000000011060000000000000000000000000000" I got the following rep...