Package usb-modeswitch: Information

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Source package: usb-modeswitch
Version: 2.6.0-alt1
Latest version according to Repology
Build time:  Feb 13, 2020, 01:06 PM in the task #245770
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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.

List of rpms provided by this srpm:
usb-modeswitch (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, aarch64)
usb-modeswitch-debuginfo (x86_64, ppc64le, i586, aarch64)

Maintainer: Sergey Y. Afonin



    1. tcl
    2. libusb-devel

Last changed


Feb. 10, 2020 Sergey Y. Afonin 2.6.0-alt1
- 2.6.0 (ALT #33493)
- updated License tag to SPDX syntax
- updated systemd-detection.patch
May 12, 2016 Mikhail Efremov 2.3.0-alt2
- Fix systemd-detection.patch.
May 5, 2016 Anton V. Boyarshinov 2.3.0-alt1
- 2.3.0