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

Asked by adam

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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This question was originally filed as bug #970871.

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Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) said : 		#1

not a bug
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Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) said : 		#2

Just google:

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=014058606140973863603%3Agku31ahz_cw&ie=UTF-8&q=Huawei+E173&sa=Buscar&siteurl=www.ubuntu-es.org%2Fforum&ref=www.ubuntu-es.org%2Fnode%2F159381&oq=&aq=&aqi=&aql=&gs_l=&gs_204=1#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=Huawei%20E173&gsc.page=1

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adam (adam-ciganek) said : 		#3

Hi there,

I don't need links to workarounds, because I already got it to work (which I mentioned in the bug report). I posted the bug report, because I believe that the fact that it doesn't work out of the box is a bug. Any thoughts?

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