Comment 11 for bug 561051

I have a similar modem (a E1692) which identifies exactly the same to lsusb. The only way I could get it to work was to disable support for modem-modeswitch (edited /lib/udev/rules.d/61-option-modem-modeswitch.rules and commented the line with 1446 in it), adding a slightly edited set of rules from the huawey software, and installed the software (provided here in Italy by Alice/TIM in the original firmware of the E1692). The HWActivator included was the only thing that could switch the modem into the proper mode.