ZTE MF636 USB modem is not supported

ZTE MF636 USB modem is not supported

[Ole Reier Ulland]

I have reported this a while ago to the Mandriva bugzilla, but I cannot see if 
anyone is doing anything about it. So now I just want to send the link to this 
e-mail address to get a reply and some understanding.

https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=57165

[root@Dell_Dim Mine_Filer_1_FAT]# uname -a
Linux Dell_Dim 2.6.31.12-desktop-1mnb #1 SMP Tue Jan 26 03:35:36 EST 2010 i686 
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz GNU/Linux

Is it fixed already maybe? Is there another kernel that I can use?

Is there anything else I can do to help this along?


Sincerely,

Ole Reier Ulland
Sverre Stordahls vei 3
3613 KONGSBERG
Norway
(p) +47 32722175
(m) +47 40285050
ole.reier@netcom.no

Re: ZTE MF636 USB modem is not supported

[Oliver Neukum]

Am Donnerstag, 11. März 2010 00:08:58 schrieb Ole Reier Ulland:
> I have reported this a while ago to the Mandriva bugzilla, but I cannot see if 
> anyone is doing anything about it. So now I just want to send the link to this 
> e-mail address to get a reply and some understanding.
> 
> https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=57165

Maybe Mandriva did not report it upstream.
 
> [root@Dell_Dim Mine_Filer_1_FAT]# uname -a
> Linux Dell_Dim 2.6.31.12-desktop-1mnb #1 SMP Tue Jan 26 03:35:36 EST 2010 i686 
> Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz GNU/Linux
> 
> Is it fixed already maybe? Is there another kernel that I can use?

Possible but unlikely. You should try the latest stable kernel.(2.6.33.x)
 
> Is there anything else I can do to help this along?

Post "dmesg" from the moment you plug the modem in and "lsusb -v"
And post them to the correct list, the USB list.

	Regards
		Oliver

Re: ZTE MF636 USB modem is not supported

[Jiri Kosina]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Ole Reier Ulland wrote:

> I have reported this a while ago to the Mandriva bugzilla, but I cannot see if 
> anyone is doing anything about it. So now I just want to send the link to this 
> e-mail address to get a reply and some understanding.
> 
> https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=57165
> 
> [root@Dell_Dim Mine_Filer_1_FAT]# uname -a
> Linux Dell_Dim 2.6.31.12-desktop-1mnb #1 SMP Tue Jan 26 03:35:36 EST 2010 i686 
> Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz GNU/Linux
> 
> Is it fixed already maybe? Is there another kernel that I can use?
> 
> Is there anything else I can do to help this along?

It is likely that your modem will need to have been switched to "serial" 
mode over from the default "storage" mode before it could be used 
(usb_modemswitch is an userspace application to do that for many ZTE 
modems).

Could you please post

1) dmesg once your modem is plugged in
2) lsusb -v output for this modem

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

Re: ZTE MF636 USB modem is not supported

[Ondrej Zary]

On Thursday 11 March 2010, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Ole Reier Ulland wrote:
> > I have reported this a while ago to the Mandriva bugzilla, but I cannot
> > see if anyone is doing anything about it. So now I just want to send the
> > link to this e-mail address to get a reply and some understanding.
> >
> > https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=57165
> >
> > [root@Dell_Dim Mine_Filer_1_FAT]# uname -a
> > Linux Dell_Dim 2.6.31.12-desktop-1mnb #1 SMP Tue Jan 26 03:35:36 EST 2010
> > i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz GNU/Linux
> >
> > Is it fixed already maybe? Is there another kernel that I can use?
> >
> > Is there anything else I can do to help this along?
>
> It is likely that your modem will need to have been switched to "serial"
> mode over from the default "storage" mode before it could be used
> (usb_modemswitch is an userspace application to do that for many ZTE
> modems).

Not sure about MF636, but MF637 works with this udev rule:
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="19d2", SYSFS{idProduct}=="2000", RUN+="/usr/sbin/usb_modeswitch --default-vendor 0x19d2 --default-product 0x2000 --message-content 55534243123456782000000080000c85010101180101010101000000000000"

> Could you please post
>
> 1) dmesg once your modem is plugged in
> 2) lsusb -v output for this modem

-- 
Ondrej Zary

Re: ZTE MF636 USB modem is not supported

[Jiri Kosina]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, Ondrej Zary wrote:

> Not sure about MF636, but MF637 works with this udev rule:
> SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="19d2", SYSFS{idProduct}=="2000", RUN+="/usr/sbin/usb_modeswitch --default-vendor 0x19d2 --default-product 0x2000 --message-content 55534243123456782000000080000c85010101180101010101000000000000"

Yes, this works for most of the ZTE modems with exception for 628 IIRC, 
which needs 5553424312345678000000000000061b000000030000000000000000000000 
instead.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.