Huawei Mobile Driver DownloadHuawei E1. 55. 2E1. E1. 73 on Cent. OS 6. Today I had a chance to test Huawei E1. USB dongle and it works perfectly on my Mint Linux. All I had to do was to plug it in and turn on via network manager applet. I wanted to test this dongle with Cent. OS 6 and the main idea was to use this device for SMS monitoring. Using online SMS providers is much cheaper and easier a bunch of APIs but the online services are useless when your network is disconnected. There are a lot differences between RH based server distros and the newcutting edge distro like Mint. To be honest, I expected the problems with Cent. OS. The first thing was to check the USB donglerootserver dmesg grep usb. USB device number 2 using ehcihcd. New USB device found, id. Vendor1. 2d. 1, id. Product1. 44. 6. New USB device strings Mfr3, Product2, Serial. Number0. usb 2 4 Product HUAWEI Mobile. Manufacturer HUAWEI Technology. USB device number 2 using ehcihcd. New USB device found, id. Vendor1. 2d. 1, id. Product1. 44. 6. New USB device strings Mfr3, Product2, Serial. Number0. usb 2 4 Product HUAWEI Mobile. Manufacturer HUAWEI Technology. Ops the device is detected as USB storage which I didnt expect and I dont want. rootserver lsusb. Bus 0. 02 Device 0. ID 1. 2d. 1 1. 44. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E1. 55. 2E1. 80. E1. 73 HSPA modemrootserver lsusb. Bus 0. 02 Device 0. ID 1. 2d. 1 1. 44. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E1. 55. 2E1. 80. E1. 73 HSPA modemAfter some googling I discovered that the first thing I need to do is to install usbmodeswitch and smstools packages. The first package will be used to switch USB dongle from usb storage into modem mode. The second one will be used for SMS operations. In the moment I tested this, I was far away from the server and I couldnt try the simple plugunplug method. The solution was to invoke the next commandrootserver usbmodeswitch c etcusbmodeswitch. Looking for target devices. No devices in target mode or class found. Looking for default devices. ID. adding device. HUAWEI E173 on Ubuntu 12. 04. The last time I used the same Huawei USB modem. If you get the messages The Linux NDIS driver is installed successfully. Hi, Im having Huavei e173 modem which can work in both mini cdrom and modem mode. Few days ago, Ive installed that modem on windows laptop, then Ive plugged it to. Today I had a chance to test Huawei E173 USB dongle and it works perfectly on my Mint Linux. All I had to do was to plug it in and turn on via network manager applet. Using Huawei E173 mobile broadband USB stick on linux. Tmobile 615 Mobile Broadband dongle. Download the Huawei E173 driver for linux available here. Found device in default mode, class or configuration 1. Accessing device 0. Getting the current device configuration. OK, got current device configuration 1. Using first interface 0x. This page describes how to set up Huawei E173s 3G USB modem on Arch Linux. It involves switching the USB stick from CDROM mode to modem mode using usbmodeswitch. Huawei Linux Driver 4. 19. 19. 00 For All Huawei Modems Like E155, E1550, E155X, E16X, E1612, E1615, E1616, E1630, E172, E172G, E173, E176, E1762, E177, E1780. Does the Linux kernel that comes with Ubuntu 12. 04 support the Huawei E353 modem Im using it on Windows currently but want to know if it works on Ubuntu. Using endpoints 0x. Inquiring device details driver will be detached. Looking for active driver. No driver found. Either detached before or never attached. SCSI inquiry data for identification. Vendor String HUAWEI. Model String Mass Storage. Revision String 2. USB description data for identification. Manufacturer HUAWEI Technology. Product HUAWEI Mobile. Serial No. not provided. Setting up communication with interface 0. Using endpoint 0x. Trying to send message 1 to endpoint 0x. OK, message successfully sent. Resetting response endpoint 0x. Could not reset endpoint probably harmless 7. Resetting message endpoint 0x. Could not reset endpoint probably harmless 1. Device is gone, skipping any further commands. Run lsusb to note any changes. Bye. rootserver usbmodeswitch c etcusbmodeswitch. Looking for target devices. No devices in target mode or class found. Looking for default devices. ID. adding device. Found device in default mode, class or configuration 1. Accessing device 0. Getting the current device configuration. OK, got current device configuration 1. Using first interface 0x. Using endpoints 0x. Inquiring device details driver will be detached. Looking for active driver. No driver found. Either detached before or never attached. SCSI inquiry data for identification. Vendor String HUAWEI. Model String Mass Storage. Revision String 2. USB description data for identification. Manufacturer HUAWEI Technology. Product HUAWEI Mobile. Serial No. not provided. Setting up communication with interface 0. Using endpoint 0x. Trying to send message 1 to endpoint 0x. OK, message successfully sent. Resetting response endpoint 0x. Could not reset endpoint probably harmless 7. Resetting message endpoint 0x. Could not reset endpoint probably harmless 1. Device is gone, skipping any further commands. Run lsusb to note any changes. Bye. As the output recommended, I tried again with lsusbrootserver lsusb. Bus 0. 02 Device 0. ID 1. 2d. 1 1. 00. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E1. 69E6. 20E8. HSDPA Modem. rootserver lsusb. Bus 0. 02 Device 0. ID 1. 2d. 1 1. 00. Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E1. 69E6. 20E8. HSDPA Modem. Also, after this step, you should haverootserver smsd ls devtty. USB. devtty. USB0 devtty. USB1 devtty. USB2rootserver smsd ls devtty. USB devtty. USB0 devtty. USB1 devtty. USB2. I found that the settings file etcsmsd. SMSTools should be something like this devices GSM1. OK, set log level lower 5 is good in most cases. ATCPMSME,ME,ME. USB0. incoming yesdevices GSM1. OK, set log level lower 5 is good in most cases. ATCPMSME,ME,ME. USB0. incoming yes. You can find more information about the configuration parameters on the next link http smstools. Start smsd service with service smsd start. To send SMS message go into varspoolsmsoutgoing dir and create the file test. SMS for example and add the next content inside. To 3. 87. 65. 65. To 3. 87. 65. 65. The other option is to use smssend command. In case that something doesnt work, check the logs inside varlogsmsd dir.