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ZTE MF110 UMTS stick with Ubuntu 9.10 and UMTSmon

The MF110 need some manual fiddling to work under Ubuntu. The general problem with this kind of sticks is that they consist of a mass storage part for the Window$ drivers, the modem part and maybe other parts (in or case an SD card reader). In order to get the modem part going, you will need the usb-modeswitch package (available via synaptics). After it is installed, modify the file /etc/usb_modeswitch.conf and append the following lines:

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# ZTE MF110
#
# Contributor: Fernando Anthony Ristagno
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DefaultVendor=0x19d2
DefaultProduct=0x2000

TargetVendor=0x19d2
TargetProduct=0x0031

MessageEndpoint=0x1
MessageContent="55534243b8fe6681000000000000061b000000020000000000000000000000"

Afterwards, create the file "/etc/udev/rules.d/55-ztemf110.rules" with the following content:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="2000", SYSFS{idVendor}=="19d2", RUN+="/usr/sbin/usb_modeswitch"

Next, download and unpack UMTSmon. UMTSmon is available here. In order to use it, install the libqt3-mt package (also available via synaptics). UMTSmon provides a graphical interface to configure your mobile broadband connection.