Have you tried this?
1. Drop to a terminal and get root 2. Search for the path to usb_modeswitch or usb-modeswitch and usb_modeswitch.conf 3. Issue /path/to/usb-modeswitch -I -W -c /path/to/usb-modeswitch.conf 4. Check dmesg output to see if the mide has been switched
Of course, you'll also need to check if the device was correctly identified. Is it a Huawei card? Its ZeroCD mode identifier would be 12d1:1446.
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