Hi, your suggestion worked just fine: from the root shell the command was issued without problems and the modem became immediately available in Network Manager. After that I disconnected and was not able to reconnect again, but I guess this could be a NM problem. I'll try again this evening. Thanks ...

Just to be sure I did not misunderstand anything, I post here the result of the whole process: acasta@acasta-eeepc:~$ sudo usb_modeswitch -c 12d1:1c0b Looking for target devices ... No devices in target mode or class found Looking for default devices ... Found devices in default mode or class (1 ...

Hi, I tried what suggested: acasta@acasta-eeepc:~$ sudo modprobe -v option insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-27-generic/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/usbserial.ko insmod /lib/modules/2.6.32-27-generic/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/option.ko Then: acasta@acasta-eeepc:~$ sudo echo "12d1 1c05" >/sys/bus/usb-serial ...

Hello, I am trying to have this E173s dongle working my Asus eee netbook. The exact model of my dongle (the one I can read under the cover, not on the outer label) is E173s-2. I managed to install usb-modeswitch 1.1.5 from the debian repository, run it and everything seemed to work all right: the ...