From: Marcelo Chiapparini on
Hello,

I need to use the modem ZTE MF 622 (usb modem) with lenny. Apparently, it is
necessary to have installed the program usb-modeswitch. It is not present in
Lenny, but it is present in testing. I checked the dependencies, and all the
necessary libraries are present in lenny. Can I install usb-modeswitch
from testing in lenny?

Thanks for the help

Marcelo
From: Jasper on
Have you tried simply 'ejecting' the 'cdrom' ?

Also: once you are able to communicate with the -modem-, then it is
possible to tell the device to never appear as a 'cdrom' again. Link:


http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=5813

--Jasper.



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From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on
On Wednesday 18 November 2009 08:16:34 Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to use the modem ZTE MF 622 (usb modem) with lenny. Apparently, it
> is necessary to have installed the program usb-modeswitch. It is not
> present in Lenny, but it is present in testing. I checked the
> dependencies, and all the necessary libraries are present in lenny. Can I
> install usb-modeswitch from testing in lenny?

Should work. If you want to keep usb-modeswitch updated, you'll want to start
tracking testing and testing-security for that package. You can do that by
having both repositories in sources.list and using apt pinning (man 5
apt_preferences). An example for how I pull from
testing/unstable/experimental as needed is at
<http://www.iguanasuicide.net/node/4>.
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