I somehow solved this by downgrading the usb-modeswitch package to a earlier version :1.1.0-2 and usb-modeswitch-data to 20100127_1.
I downloaded .deb files for these packages and tried gdebi. But the deb installer was broke and was giving errors: "dpkg: unable to read file descriptor"
So I used the command sudo dpkg -i <file.deb> and it worked. The problem still remains with the latest usb-modeswitch package.
I somehow solved this by downgrading the usb-modeswitch package to a earlier version :1.1.0-2 and usb-modeswitch-data to 20100127_1.
I downloaded .deb files for these packages and tried gdebi. But the deb installer was broke and was giving errors: "dpkg: unable to read file descriptor"
So I used the command sudo dpkg -i <file.deb> and it worked. The problem still remains with the latest usb-modeswitch package.