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I got a new airtel data card with Huawei E1731 firmware. My laptop is Dell Inspiron 14. When I plugged in the device into my laptop, It is not even detecting that device as an USB. I went into /media directory, and I found that it is empty. I have a set of installation files in my data card's USB storage which could run the configurations. I am posting this question after trying all the options mentioned in this forum like using network manager, using wvdial etc. I was not able to execute apt-get usb-modeswitch as I don't have any internet available for that laptop.

Regards, Renga

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Rengasami Ramanujam
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Your card should be detected by default as reported , see - HUAWEI E173 on Ubuntu 12.04

First if you are trying the device in USB3.0 port, try switching to a USB2.0 port or vice verse and wait for 30-60 sec to check whether it detects the device(the device's lights should become stable ).

If not

  1. Plugin your device, open terminal and execute lsusb

  2. Identify the device, an example line could be

    Bus 001 Device 003: ID 12d1:1d35 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

  3. Carefully take a note of numbers like ****:YYYY. The **** defines vendor Id and YYYY defines product id. In above example vendor ID is 12d1 & product ID is 1d35

  4. Execute sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0x**** product=0xYYYY (Replace with your vendor id and product id)

  5. Now wait to see whether it detects and you see New Broadband Connection like below

    enter image description here

  6. If everything works, execute sudo gedit /etc/modules

  7. Add the line usbserial vendor=0x**** product=0xYYYY (change vendor and product id as per your output), save and reboot.

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To me clicking after plugging in the device also I am not getting a link for new mobile broadband gsm connection link

Rengasami Ramanujam
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