Rogers Mobile Internet Stick working under Linux

Ivan Avery Frey ivan.frey-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Fri Nov 28 14:48:54 UTC 2008


Robert Brockway wrote:
> Exactly.  The device appears as a serial device (/dev/ttyUSB0 for me) 
> and is managed through pppd.  I've used wvdial to do the dial-up script 
> this time.
> 
> In the past I had occassionally used a GPRS phone for slow (and 
> expensive) data access and it appeared the same way.
> 
> There is a *gotcha* in starting the device but this isn't as bad as it 
> first sounds as it is easy to work around.
> 
> When the MC950D is first detected by Ubuntu (and probably other distros) 
> is appears as a mass storage device[1].  I fixed this problem with the 
> following method.  Not ideal but it works consistently:
> 
> 1.  Make sure /proc/bus/usb is mounted
> 2.  Plug in MC950D
> 3.  Execute the following commands as root
> 
> rmmod usbserial
> eject /dev/sr1
> modprobe usbserial vendor=0x1410 product=0x4400
> 
> Now you should see /dev/ttyUSB0 & /dev/ttyUSB1 in dmesg.
> 
> You can then execute the script to establish the "serial" connection.
> 
> I'll be automating this more in due course and I hope to find a smarter 
> way of getting it to recognise the MC950D as a "serial" device.
> 
> [1] It actually is a mass storage device.

Can the device be both a mass storage and a serial device at the same time?

Ivan.
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