I have A Huwaei Reliance Netconnect+ modem.. To use it with Ubuntu I need to first boot into Windows use it for a while and then restart and go to Ubuntu..Else its not detected as a modem or a usb drive in Linux... I have tried almost every method using wvdial configuration..
Any solution to this? Do my UEFI settings make a difference?
I guess your modem is EC1260.
I had the same problem with Ubuntu 13.04, here's how I solved it -
Check the 'lsusb' output -
$ lsusb
If your modem is not isted as something like this -
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. EC1260 Wireless Data Modem HSD USB Card
It means that usb-modeswitch is not working.
copy the config tar to /tmp for extraction -
cp /usr/share/usb_modeswitch/configPack.tar.gz /tmp
unzip it
gunzip configPack.tar.gz
extract the tar
tar xvf configPack.tar
copy to required directory
sudo cp 12d1:1446 /etc/usb_modeswitch.d/
finally execute usb_modeswitch.
sudo usb_modeswitch -I -W -D -s 5 -c /etc/usb_modeswitch.d/12d1:1446 -u -1 -v 12d1 -p 1446
If it fails try again (usually works the second time). And even after this it doesn't works then it might be a bug please report it
