Fortunately (or not, depending on the point of view) I just had a direct report about this same problem.
At the heart of the matter is the decision of the phone/firmware makers to re-use the USB ID of the MediaTek modems. Now we have to separate phones from modem sticks. The solution is to alter the config file name "0e8d:0002" to "0e8d:0002:uPr=MT" in the usb_modeswitch data package. The known phones with the ID have iProduct attributes beginning with "X", modems have "MT". By changing the name, phones will be left alone entirely. This will of course be changed in the next upstream release of the data package; maybe Odyx can release a small fix in advance. Cheers, Josh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
