Application: usb-modeswitch What it is: Several new USB devices have their proprietary Windows drivers onboard, especially WAN dongles. When plugged in for the first time, they act like a flash storage and start installing the driver from there. If the driver is already installed, the storage device vanishes and a new device, such as an USB modem, shows up. This is called the "ZeroCD" feature. On Debian, this is not needed, since the driver is included as a Linux kernel module, such as "usbserial". However, the device still shows up as "usb-storage" by default. usb-modeswitch solves that issue by sending the command which actually performs the switching of the device from "usb-storage" to "usbserial". To know more about: http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/ To install in Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install usb-modeswitch usb-modeswitch-data -- Cheers, Dhastha Project staff Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay My experience on Linux: http://dhastha.wordpress.com Member of KanchiLUG : http://www.kanchilug.wordpress.com OAOD : http://dowithlinux.wordpress.com Kanchilug Blog : http://kanchilug.wordpress.com To subscribe/unsubscribe kanchilug mailing list : http://kanchilug.wordpress.com/join-mailing-list/