The long-awaited kit finally arrived — a locked 3G USB modem ZTE MF100 and a Kyivstar SIM card. Under Windows everything worked right off the bat. They also provide drivers for Mac. I figured such a cool Linux would find it on its own (it did find my phone, after all), but no such luck. Turns out this modem is incredibly tricky. When plugged into USB, it first shows up as a SCSI CD-ROM with drivers. Only after that device is disconnected does the modem reveal itself as a modem + card reader. The problem is that disconnecting it in Linux is not so straightforward. Did some reading — there are two ways: 1. patch the kernel 2. patch the modem
Sitting here thinking about which one I feel worse about. The modem is winning for now; I’m thinking about building the kernel. Though it’s such a pain :(
