Package usb-modeswitch: Information
Source package: usb-modeswitch
Version: 1.1.8-alt1
Build time: Jul 1, 2011, 04:22 PM
Category: System/Configuration/Hardware
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License: GPL
Summary: usb-modeswitch is a mode switching tool for controlling "flip flop" (multiple device) USB gear.
Description:
USB_ModeSwitch is (surprise!) a mode switching tool for controlling "flip flop" (multiple device) USB gear. Several new USB devices (especially high-speed wireless WAN stuff, there seems to be a chipset from Qualcomm offering that feature) have their MS Windows drivers onboard; when plugged in for the first time they act like a flash storage and start installing the driver from there. After that (and on every consecutive plugging) this driver switches the mode internally, the storage device vanishes (in most cases), and a new device (like a USB modem) shows up. The WWAN gear maker Option calls that feature "ZeroCD (TM)". Needed for MTS (and others) branded e1550 modems.
Maintainer: Anton V. Boyarshinov
Last changed
July 1, 2011 Anton V. Boyarshinov 1.1.8-alt1
- 1.1.8 by manowar@
Feb. 21, 2011 Anton V. Boyarshinov 1.1.6-alt1
- 1.1.6
Dec. 17, 2010 Anton V. Boyarshinov 1.1.5-alt2
- 1.1.5