Fwd: Re: ZTE MF636 3G USB Modem

[Kevin Gilbert]

1) Sorry, following message sent direct to Dan and not mailing list.

2) Further hacking into usb_modeswitch shows that the device is not responding 
to a libusb usb_urb_transfer call - that routine returns -ETIMEDOUT.

Will dig further later - run out of time now.

Kevin

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Subject: Re: ZTE MF636 3G USB Modem
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008
From: Kevin Gilbert <kevin952 at tpg.com.au>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com>

On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, you opined:
> By "tried" I assume you mean you added the USB IDs for the modem to the
> driver, rebuilt the module, and modprobe-ed it after unmounting the
> CD-Rom drive thing, or you force-bound option to the device IDs after
> unmounting the CD-ROm thing?  Gotta make sure the CD-Rom thing is
> unmounted before trying to bind any driver to the device.

No - it was a _much_ more amateurish approach that than. Pretty much just a 
modprobe of "option" and then plug the device in.

But this appears to be a device that has yet to be seen by Linux as my first 
hack at usb_modeswitch shows it failing at the call to "usb_get_driver_np".

This is my first journey into the USB side of the kernel but my guess is that 
the kernel/HAL/whatever is not even recognising the device sufficiently to 
load a driver (usb_storage?). So any help anyone can give re where / what to 
look for would be appreciated.

Kevin


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