How to "disable zero CD" in order to get my USB mobile internet dongle working?

[Nils Kassube]

Bas Roufs wrote:
> Ever since about 2 weeks I am trying to get a mobile internet dongle
> working with Linux.So far all the attempts get stuck at the same
> point. my difficulty to "disable zero CD": to get rid of a "virtual
> CD Rom" which prevents my dongle from properly functioning. So far,
> I have tried two packages meant to help in this context:
> usb modeswitch (from the regular repository)
> ozerocdoff (from pharscape.org)

Did you check that the USB ID of your device is included in the hso.udev 
file? If it isn't, it can't work. You can see your USB ID with the 
command

lsusb

in a terminal. If the identification string isn't obvious, check the 
difference between the output when the dongle is connected and not 
connected to the USB port.

And did you try to mount the zero cd and then eject it? If it works 
similar to a WLAN dongle I have, it would switch to the modem mode after 
the zero cd is ejected.


Nils