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Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E353/E3131 contains software intended to be automatically started. Wifi doesn't work

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Suddenly for a reason I do not know, my USB wifi stopped working on Ubuntu but still works on Windows. I get this message when I plug it to Ubuntu laptop:

“NamBe” contains software intended to be automatically started. Would
you like to run it? If you don’t trust this location or aren’t sure,
press Cancel.

When I press on Run, it shows this error instead:

Unable to locate the program

This USB Wifi is still working well on an other laptop where I have Windows 10 though.

How to fix this?

EDIT 1:

Output of sudo fdisk -l without the adapter being plugged

Output of sudo fdisk -l after plugging the adapter

EDIT 2: (for user.dz)

Output of lsusb without the adapter being plugged

Output of lsusb with the adapter being plugged

P.S. I will edit later this post to respond to the other comments too

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answered 3 Years ago erettor · Accepted Answer

You're solving the wrong problem here. Why run the script when you can just have the system auto-detect your modem and Just Work™.

If you run a modeswitch command on the modem, it will activate itself as a modem instead of mass storage, and you system will automatically detect it as such.

Reading your lsusb output, we have this:

Bus 002 Device 003: ID 12d1:1f01 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E353/E3131 (Mass storage mode)

So, let's make the mode auto-set to modem mode. In a terminal, run the following command:

sudo nano /lib/udev/rules.d/40-usb_modeswitch.rules

At the very bottom of the opened file, paste in this exact string:

# Huawei E353/E3131

ATTR{idVendor}=="12d1", ATTR{idProduct}=="1f01", RUN +="usb_modeswitch '%b/%k'"

Unplug your modem and reboot the system. Upon restart, plug in the modem. The system should automatically detect it as a modem and connect you to the internet. You won't need to auto-run anything, and you won't have the partition mounted on your computer.

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