How to connect BROADBAND+ ZTE modem

[Guest Kavi]

When i insert the modem it detect as a Storage media....

It Not recognizing the modem....

I plugged in when the system is booting then also It was not detected .

 

 

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[Greg2]

What version of Mandriva are you using? With the device plugged in, please open a terminal and post the output (as root) of

lsusb

 

Welcome aboard! :)

[David Batson]

You might try installing usb_modeswitch. It is supposed to fix these sorts of issues I believe. If you use Software Installer, make sure leftmost button is set to "All" and not the default "Packages with GUI" before you search for usb_modeswitch.

[Guest Kavi]

I am using Mandriva 2009 spring

The OutPut of the command

lsusb

 

 

Bus 004 Device 003: ID 19d2:fff6 ONDA Communication S.p.A.

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Bus 006 Device 002: ID 05a9:2640 OmniVision Technologies, Inc. OV2640 Webcam

Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Bus 003 Device 002: ID 15d9:0a37  

Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Edited August 31, 2009 by Kavi

[Greg2]

I would suggest installing the usb_modeswitch package that David recommended.

 

Please note that I don't have your device to test, so I can only make a suggestion for you to try, without any guarantee that it will work. :)

 

That said, you could try downloading the 'India BSNL AC8700 Software for Linux' package from here: ztemt.com.cn/ennewzte/service/ziliao.action

 

Then try following the instructions here (that were written for Fedora 10, but the kernel is 2.6.29) so it may work for you: reliance-netconnect-broadband-on-linux

 

I've looked at the ztemtEVDO-1.1-8.i586-fedora9.rpm in the software package, and it 'may' work for you.

 

The good news is, that if you look at the kernel patch-2.6.31-rc4-git4.log, you will find:

commit 183791588efd416fc35a71819683b32dee92615b
Author: Peng Huang <shawn.p.huang@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jul 22 11:54:48 2009 +0200

   USB: serial: option: Add ZTE AC8710 usb modem device.

   Signed-off-by: Peng Huang <shawn.p.huang@gmail.com>
   Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
   Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This shows us that it 'could' soon be in the Mandriva kernels > 2.6.31-xx.