[PLUG] Tata Indicom Photon+ configuration (Olive V-ME101)

[Arindam Mukherjee]

Hi,

I am trying to configure Tata Indicom Photon+ mobile broadband with
Olive V-ME101 USB modem that the vendor provided to me. It is
officially supported on Linux. My Distro is OpenSuSE 11.1.

Here are the steps I carried out:

elan:~ # lsusb
<... other entries ...>
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 201e:2009
<... other entries ...>

elan:~ # modprobe usbserial vendor=0x201e product=0x2009

elan:~ # dmesg
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=201e, idProduct=2009
usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 1-1: Product: USB MMC Storage
usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Qualcomm, Incorporated
usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 000000000002
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 8:0:0:0: CD-ROM            Qualcomm MMC Storage      2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/0x caddy
sr 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
sr 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
usb-storage: device scan complete
sr0: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: Get configuration 46 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 20 00
sr: Sense Key : No Sense [current]
sr: Add. Sense: No additional sense information
sr0: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: Get configuration 46 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 20 00
sr: Sense Key : No Sense [current]
sr: Add. Sense: No additional sense information
sr0: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: Get configuration 46 00 00 28 00 00
00 00 10 00
sr: Sense Key : No Sense [current]
sr: Add. Sense: No additional sense information
sr0: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: Get configuration 46 00 00 20 00 00
00 00 18 00
sr: Sense Key : No Sense [current]
sr: Add. Sense: No additional sense information
sr0: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: Get configuration 46 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 20 00
sr: Sense Key : No Sense [current]
sr: Add. Sense: No additional sense information
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1
ISOFS: changing to secondary root
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
usbserial: USB Serial support registered for generic
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
usbserial: USB Serial Driver core
scsi 8:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
scsi 8:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
scsi 8:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device

I cannot make much head or tail of the errors reported. I also tried
the following based on recommendation here:

# usb_modeswitch -v 0x201e -p 0x2009

But get the following errors:

Error: no MessageEndpoint given. Can't send message. Aborting

In /ets/usb_modeswitch.conf, I don't see any entry for the Vendor Id
201e and product id 2009 under it. Apparently I need a Vendor  +
Product specific MessageEndpoint (something like an address or Offset
I think) and a MessageContent which is written to the endpoint. This
information is not there with me for Olive V-ME101. Any help is
appreciated.

Regards,
Arindam