Comment 4 for bug 1328412

New upstream versions of usb-modeswitch (2.2.0) and usb-modeswitch-data (20140529) released 3 months ago and were packaged in Debian unstable since June!

This Huawei E398 issue (and lots of other Huawei related issues, like bug #1308895) are fixed in updated usb-modeswitch (2.2.0+repack0-1) and usb-modeswitch-data (20140529-1) packages in Debian unstable.

Please merge usb-modeswitch 2.2.0+repack0-1 package from Debian unstable to Ubuntu Utopic.

Here is debian/changelog:

usb-modeswitch (2.2.0+repack0-2) unstable; urgency=medium
   * Add patch to set TMPDIR to /run, add Build-Depends version constraint to
     pull a libjim supporting the setting of TMPDIR (Closes: #751271)

usb-modeswitch (2.2.0+repack0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
  * New 2.2.0 upstream release
    - Introduction of parameter "HuaweiNewMode", wrapping the standard bulk
      message for all newer Huawei devices;
    - Support for generic fallback config files, combined with OS switch (per
      vendor ID);
  * Repack the upstream tarball:
    - Drop the code copy of jimtcl.
  * Bump usb-modeswitch-data depends to 20140529
  * Update VCS-* fields to canonical form
 -- Didier Raboud <email address hidden> Mon, 09 Jun 2014 11:21:08 +0200

And here is usb-modeswitch-data debian/changelog:
http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/u/usb-modeswitch-data/unstable_changelog