usb-modeswitch: A mode switching tool for controlling 'multi-mode' USB devices1

More and more USB devices (especially high-speed WAN stuff, based on cell phone chipsets which are able to change their USB connection mode) have their MS Windows drivers onboard; when plugged in for the first time they act like a flash storage and start installing the driver from there. After installation (and on every consecutive plugging) the driver switches the mode internally, the storage device vanishes (in most cases), and a new device (like an USB modem) shows up. Modem maker "Option" calls that feature "ZeroCD (TM)" since it eliminates the need for shipping a separate driver carrier

... part of T2, get it here

URL: http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/

Author: Josua Dietze, etc
Maintainer: The T2 Project <t2 [at] t2-project [dot] org>

License: GPL
Status: Stable
Version: 2.6.1

Remark: Does cross compile (as setup and patched in T2).

Download: http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/ usb-modeswitch-2.6.1.tar.bz2

T2 source: usb-modeswitch.cache
T2 source: usb-modeswitch.desc

Build time (on reference hardware): 1% (relative to binutils)2

Installed size (on reference hardware): 0.11 MB, 12 files

Dependencies (build time detected): 00-dirtree alsa-utils bash binutils coreutils diffutils findutils gawk grep libusb linux-header make pkgconfig sed tar

Installed files (on reference hardware): [show]

1) This page was automatically generated from the T2 package source. Corrections, such as dead links, URL changes or typos need to be performed directly on that source.

2) Compatible with Linux From Scratch's "Standard Build Unit" (SBU).