Huawei E3372 (& other hilink dongles?) cannot be used for connecting to the internet

[Aminda Suomalainen]

I have Huawei E3372 which works directly when I plug it in Windows 10, but on Ubuntu I cannot use it for connecting to the internet. It's light is cyan which means it's connected to 4G network, but it does nothing.

It appears in lsusb: `Bus 001 Device 003: ID 12d1:1f01 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E353/E3131 (Mass storage mode)`

And it also appears in ifconfig:

```
lxcbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FILTERED
          inet addr:10.0.3.1 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::FILTERED/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:8993 (8.9 KB)
```

I also don't understand where the address 10.0.3.1 comes from as in Windows the control panel was in 192.168.8.1 or something like it.

I also found another bug report, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1424181 but I don't think this is a dupicate as from the title it looks like it doesn't appear in lsusb and that bug has expired. This package also seems to have bug reports for other dongles.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: usb-modeswitch 2.2.3+repack0-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.1.0-3.3-generic 4.1.3
Uname: Linux 4.1.0-3-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.18-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop:

Date: Mon Aug 10 16:11:00 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-31 (10 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20150729)
SourcePackage: usb-modeswitch
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[varlesh (varlesh-l)]

I confirm this. On Ubuntu 15.10 Udev not applying usb-modeswitch rules and modem start as CD-Rom.
But on Ubuntu 15.04 this modem working fine and automatic switch to Modem mode.
This regress udev or usb-modeswitch.

[akamanah (akamanah)]

Also confirm on the last kubuntu beta,

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Please reproduce the problem and then attach the complete file /var/log/syslog from the system. The previous JournalErrors doesn't appear to include the important data from usb-modeswitch or NetworkManager/ModemManager.

Also, lxcbr0 is not related in any way to the modem; its IP address is set up automatically, and all of it comes from lxc, a container management tool that is apparently installed on your system.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for usb-modeswitch (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]