usb-modeswitch binary package in Ubuntu Xenial armhf
Several new USB devices have their proprietary Windows drivers onboard,
especially WAN dongles. When plugged in for the first time, they act
like a flash storage and start installing the driver from there. If
the driver is already installed, the storage device vanishes and
a new device, such as an USB modem, shows up. This is called the
"ZeroCD" feature.
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On Debian, this is not needed, since the driver is included as a
Linux kernel module, such as "usbserial". However, the device still
shows up as "usb-storage" by default. usb-modeswitch solves that
issue by sending the command which actually performs the switching
of the device from "usb-storage" to "usbserial".
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This package contains the binaries and the brother scripts.
Publishing history
Date | Status | Target | Component | Section | Priority | Phased updates | Version | ||
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2015-10-22 15:20:22 UTC | Published | Ubuntu Xenial armhf | release | main | comm | Extra | 2.2.5+repack0-1ubuntu1 | ||
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