I've now tried installing usb-modeswitch. Both with without and with the --huawei-mode modification it fails to solve the problem.
I occasionally try to persuade colleagues to shift to Ubuntu. Situations like this - where most of the mobile broadband devices in use are disabled for months and the Ubuntu people don;t see this as any sort of a problem at all - make me despair. No wonder we still have bug #1.
I've now tried installing usb-modeswitch. Both with without and with the --huawei-mode modification it fails to solve the problem.
I occasionally try to persuade colleagues to shift to Ubuntu. Situations like this - where most of the mobile broadband devices in use are disabled for months and the Ubuntu people don;t see this as any sort of a problem at all - make me despair. No wonder we still have bug #1.