Ubuntu 10.10 and ZTE MF637 (3G modem)

[Hetz Ben Hamo]

I have the same modem.
The problem happens to have dual purpose: as a USB storage and as a 3G
modem, so in many cases the modem "stuck" in USB storage mode and it takes
time until it switches.

You can try to do a simple thing: when the modem is recognized as a USB
storage, use the "eject" command to get out of storage mode and see if this
improves the time until it becomes 3G modem.

Hetz


2010/11/21 Nitzan Brumer <nitzanb at gmail.com>

> I have the ZTE MF637 on Orange and I use it with my Laptop which runs
> Ubuntu 10.10.
> Lately I've upgraded from 9.04 to 10.10 (clean install actually) and though
> the modem do connect its take awful lot of time for the OS to mount it as a
> 3G modem.
>
> The hardware recognition is almost Immediate and lsusb gives :
>
> Bus 001 Device 004: ID 19d2:0031 ONDA Communication S.p.A. ZTE MF636
>
> Also, the dongle has a micro sd slot and the micro sd card is spotted and
> mounted on insertion.
>
> But it takes up to 7-8 Minutes until Ubuntu's network manager shows the
> "Orange 3g" under Mobile Broadband connections.
>
> Any one got an idea as for why and how to fix that? on 9.04 it also took
> some time but it was about 20-40 seconds, while now I'm counting in minutes.
>
>
> Nitzan Brumer
> Http://n2b.org
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