Subject: Re: [PATCH] ar9170usb: add mode-switching for AVM Fritz!WLAN USB N
 devices in cdrom mode
From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Frank Schaefer <schaefer.frank@gmx.net>,
	Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>,
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Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:37:38 -0800
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On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 21:05 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > apparently do use the driver CD thing to send Linux drivers and software
> > to a few clients.  But by and large, the driver CD is completely
> > useless.
> 
> And then every so often you need to rummage around the driver CD image to
> extract the APN or other data you need to make your modem work. At which
> point you end up having to recompile the kernel to get it. Very annoying
> given it could be trivially done properly in user space.
> 
> HAL probably needs the database of these devices *not* the kernel.

It's udev these days; HAL is going away since it and udev pretty much
can do the same thing anyway.  The tool you're looking for is called
usb_modeswitch, but it needs a bit of work to Just Work in a stock
distro install with the user having to edit a config file.

Dan