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Unable to connect to Dongle on Ubuntu 16.04

Asked by Naman Sharma

After upgrading my machine from 15.10 to 16.04, my dongle stopped working. Although its showing while running lsusb

Please help

root@Naman:~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 138a:0011 Validity Sensors, Inc. VFS5011 Fingerprint Reader
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 8087:07dc Intel Corp.
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0c45:6514 Microdia
Bus 002 Device 012: ID 12d1:14fe Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Modem (Mass Storage Mode)
Bus 002 Device 011: ID 04f3:0230 Elan Microelectronics Corp. 3D Optical Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

http://bytefish.de/blog/huawei_e352s5/

You already should have the usb_modeswitch and usb_modeswitch-data but you can check by installing them using the normal methods.

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Naman Sharma (nsharma) said : 		#2

Thanks Andrew. I uninstalled and reinstalled both packages and now its working fine. Although version are same.

Before
usb-modeswitch is already the newest version (2.2.5+repack0-1ubuntu1).
usb-modeswitch-data is already the newest version (20151101-1).

Now
root@Naman:~# dpkg -l usb-modeswitch-data
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=============================-===================-===================-================================================================
ii usb-modeswitch-data 20151101-1 all mode switching data for usb-modeswitch
root@Naman:~# dpkg -l usb-modeswitch
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=============================-===================-===================-================================================================
ii usb-modeswitch 2.2.5+repack0-1ubun amd64 mode switching tool for controlling "flip flop" USB devices

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Naman Sharma (nsharma) said : 		#3

unfortunately it again stopped working :(

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Naman Sharma (nsharma) said : 		#4

sometimes its working, sometimes not

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#5

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