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: https://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).