I've just seen Steve Shaw's post in the 'TRY to post' thread about 4G. It reminded me that maybe there is help to be found here for a problem I have had for a while.

I've been using mobile broadband instead of landline broadband for a year now, but it's all on 3G. I have a 4G mobile dongle thing that works fine on Windows but not on Linux. On Linux it thinks it is a memory stick and needs a program called USB_Modeswitch to change it into a modem.

I can find the device using lsusb. I can get USB_Modeswitch to look at the device OK but I can't get it to switch. Can anyone help?