Setup Tata Photon (+) Plus on Ubuntu. 1

When you attach the tata photon+ dongle, you might notice that this was identified as a mass storage device instead of a usb modem.
Well, the reason for this is explained in this blog post here.

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.

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”.

Make sure you have installed these two packages.
usb-modeswitch-data
usb-modeswitch

Now run the following commands.

cd /etc/usb_modeswitch.d
sudo touch 12d1\:1505

Now copy the contents below to the newly created file 12d1\:1505

DefaultVendor= 0x12d1
DefaultProduct=0x1505

TargetVendor= 0x12d1
TargetProduct= 0x140b

MessageContent=”55534243123456780000000000000011062000000100000000000000000000″
CheckSuccess=20

Type ‘sudo usb_modeswitch -I -W -c 12d1:1505’ (You may have to run this every time you connect and disconnect the modem)

Now, once open the network manager you can add the new device identified as tata huawei modem
use the username and password as ‘internet’

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One comment on “Setup Tata Photon (+) Plus on Ubuntu.

  1. Reply harshit Oct 21,2012 11:43 pm

    Hi,
    After running the above command I get the following error :

    Reading config file: 12d1:1505
    * usb_modeswitch: handle USB devices with multiple modes
    * Version 1.1.4 (C) Josua Dietze 2010
    * Based on libusb0 (0.1.12 and above)

    ! PLEASE REPORT NEW CONFIGURATIONS !

    DefaultVendor= 0x12d1
    DefaultProduct= not set
    TargetVendor= 0x12d1
    TargetProduct= 0x140b
    TargetClass= not set
    TargetProductList=””

    DetachStorageOnly=0
    HuaweiMode=0
    SierraMode=0
    SonyMode=0
    GCTMode=0
    MessageEndpoint= not set
    MessageContent=””55534243123456780000000000000011062000000100000000000000000000″”
    NeedResponse=0
    ResponseEndpoint= not set
    Interface=0x00

    InquireDevice disabled
    Success check enabled, max. wait time 20 seconds
    System integration mode disabled

    usb_set_debug: Setting debugging level to 15 (on)
    usb_os_find_busses: Found 007
    usb_os_find_busses: Found 006
    usb_os_find_busses: Found 005
    usb_os_find_busses: Found 004
    usb_os_find_busses: Found 003
    usb_os_find_busses: Found 002
    usb_os_find_busses: Found 001
    usb_os_find_devices: Found 001 on 007
    usb_os_find_devices: Found 001 on 006
    usb_os_find_devices: Found 001 on 005
    usb_os_find_devices: Found 001 on 004
    usb_os_find_devices: Found 001 on 003
    usb_os_find_devices: Found 003 on 002
    skipped 4 class/vendor specific interface descriptors
    usb_os_find_devices: Found 001 on 002
    error obtaining child information: Inappropriate ioctl for device
    usb_os_find_devices: Found 001 on 001
    No default vendor/product ID given. Aborting.

    Kindly Help

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