Mine is even weirder! When I first insert the card lsusb reports it as device 5010.

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 08ff:1600 AuthenTec, Inc. AES1600
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0c45:62c0 Microdia Sonix USB 2.0 Camera
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04b4:6560 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. CY7C65640 USB-2.0 "TetraHub"
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 1410:5010 Novatel Wireless 
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 03f0:171d Hewlett-Packard Wireless (Bluetooth + WLAN) Interface [Integrated Module]
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
  

Then after a minute or more tailing /var/log/messages show that the system 'found' the card,

Nov 21 17:17:04 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2552.525420] sr: Add. Sense: No additional sense information
Nov 21 17:17:04 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2552.531597] sr 6:0:0:0: [sr1] unaligned transfer
Nov 21 17:17:04 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2552.532070] sr 6:0:0:0: [sr1] unaligned transfer
Nov 21 17:18:04 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2613.164016] usb 2-5: reset full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5
Nov 21 17:18:04 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2613.422313] sr: Sense Key : No Sense [current] 
Nov 21 17:18:04 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2613.422313] sr: Add. Sense: No additional sense information
Nov 21 17:18:05 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2613.643312] sr: Sense Key : No Sense [current] 
Nov 21 17:18:05 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2613.643312] sr: Add. Sense: No additional sense information
Nov 21 17:19:05 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2674.164018] usb 2-5: reset full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5
Nov 21 17:20:30 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2758.512337] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 22500 nsec
Nov 21 17:24:05 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2974.028764] usb 2-5: USB disconnect, address 5
Nov 21 17:24:07 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2975.577025] usb 2-5: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 6
Nov 21 17:24:07 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2975.791303] usb 2-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Nov 21 17:24:07 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2975.797013] option 2-5:1.0: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
Nov 21 17:24:07 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2975.797013] usb 2-5: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB0
Nov 21 17:24:07 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2975.804240] option 2-5:1.1: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
Nov 21 17:24:07 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2975.804448] usb 2-5: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB1
Nov 21 17:24:07 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2975.813637] option 2-5:1.2: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
Nov 21 17:24:07 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2975.813871] usb 2-5: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB2
Nov 21 17:24:07 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2975.819964] option 2-5:1.3: GSM modem (1-port) converter detected
Nov 21 17:24:07 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2975.820251] usb 2-5: GSM modem (1-port) converter now attached to ttyUSB3
Nov 21 17:24:07 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2975.822841] scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Nov 21 17:24:12 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2980.825033] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Novatel  MMC Storage      2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Nov 21 17:24:12 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2980.828217] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
Nov 21 17:24:12 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2980.854409] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
Nov 21 17:24:14 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2982.520374] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] 1995776 512-byte logical blocks: (1.02 GB/974 MiB)
Nov 21 17:24:14 DeadMeat3 kernel: [ 2982.544368]  sdb:

but, lsusb now reports it as device 4100,

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 08ff:1600 AuthenTec, Inc. AES1600
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0c45:62c0 Microdia Sonix USB 2.0 Camera
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04b4:6560 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. CY7C65640 USB-2.0 "TetraHub"
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 1410:4100 Novatel Wireless U727
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 03f0:171d Hewlett-Packard Wireless (Bluetooth + WLAN) Interface [Integrated Module]
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

It still won't connect with Network-Manager.  
I can connect using wvdial.