📱 Huawei E1752 on Linux

10 Aug 2015

The Huawei E1752 is an ~~ancient~~ USB HSDPA modem which can be still used for connecting to the internet or even sending and receiving sms messages. This post is about to get it working on Raspbian/Jessie to use it as a backup internet connection and sms-remote control my home. One would expecting it to be more difficult, but it’s very easy to install or use.

So here are the steps i done:

Do not connect your usb modem yet, first you need to install the usb-modeswitch and gsm-utils package. These are both necessary for the modem to function properly and support sms.

sudo apt-get install usb-modeswitch gsm-utils

Now edit the /etc/usb_modeswitch.conf and paste the following lines:

# Huawei E1752 #
DefaultVendor= 0x12d1
DefaultProduct= 0x1446TargetVendor= 0x12d1
TargetProduct= 0x1001
MessageEndpoint= 0x01
MessageContent="55534243000000000000000000000011060000000000000000000000000000"
HuaweiMode= 1

Reboot

It’s time to plug in the Huawei USB Modem and it’s going to appear under /dev/ttyUSBx

Test the modem with sending an sms:

echo "SMS message" | gsmsendsms -d /dev/ttyUSB0 -b 19200 PHONE_NUMBER

There should be no output if everything went fine and the sms is going to arrive in a few seconds.

To be continued with the internet config…

@GregNau

📱 Huawei E1752 on Linux