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Huawei E173 mobile broadband USB modem doesn't work out of the box

Bug #970871 reported by adam

This bug report was converted into a question: question #192446: Huawei E173 mobile broadband USB modem doesn't work out of the box.

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Bug Description

My Huawei E173 USB modem (issued by Peruvian Movistar) is not detected by NetworkManager. I eventually manged to make it work using couple of hackish workarounds (including downloading a proprietary driver from some forum i googled out) but I believe it should work out of the box, so I'm reporting this as a bug.

The modem is identified by lsusb as

    Bus 001 Device 017: ID 12d1:1c24 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

I'm using Ubuntu 11.10.

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Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) wrote :

not a bug
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adam (adam-ciganek) wrote :

Hello,

would you care to explain why do you think this is not a bug? I'm not looking for links to workarounds, since I've already found one (as I mentioned in the bug report). I simply think this should work out of the box without any workarounds, so I think it is a bug.

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