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marol

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Registered: 2022-09-19

Posts: 59

System doesn't see Huawei E3372.

After launching Windows 11 and rebooting into Arch, System doesn't see Huawei E3372.
I tried:

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0c45:671e Microdia Integrated_Webcam_HD
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0cf3:e009 Qualcomm Atheros Communications 
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 12d1:14dc Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E3372 LTE/UMTS/GSM HiLink Modem/Networkcard
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub

$ usb_modeswitch -v 0x12d1 -p 0x14dc
No default vendor/product ID given. Abort

$ mmcli -L
No modems were found

$ ip link show dev enp0s20f0u2
enp0s20f0u2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 0c:5b:8f:27:9a:64 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

$ ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp2s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether d8:d0:90:00:c3:66 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlp3s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 48:5f:99:b9:ce:59 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.0.3/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute wlp3s0
       valid_lft 27964sec preferred_lft 27964sec
    inet6 fe80::216c:1f:e1e3:b09b/64 scope link noprefixroute 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
4: enp0s20f0u2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 0c:5b:8f:27:9a:64 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

I saw few topics here about Huawei E3372 and usb modems, but nothing worked in my case. I tried to restart Network and Modem Managers, it didn't work. It seems usb-modem is launched to my latop as usb-stick mode. When I boot latop in Windows11 usb-modem works in a browser with 192.168.8.1. It doesn't show me it as a usb-stick.

Sidekick

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Registered: 2024-06-23

Posts: 56

Re: System doesn't see Huawei E3372.

I've never owned a Huawei stick but it seems to me that the arguments you provide to the

usb_modeswitch

are wrong. They should be provided without the "0x". It also seems more arguments are required. I found these posts on Stackexchange that seem to be specifically about the device you have:

Where someone tries to get the modem to work on a RaspberryPi and this one which the first one credits as being the basis for the accepted answer