| Port variant | standard |
| Summary | USB mode switching tool |
| Only for platform | freebsd | dragonfly |
| Package version | 2.6.1 |
| Homepage | https://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/ |
| Keywords | sysutils |
| Maintainer | Michael Reim |
| License | GPLv2+ |
| Other variants | There are no other variants. |
| Ravenports | Buildsheet | History |
| Ravensource | Port Directory | History |
| Last modified | 03 SEP 2023, 02:41:42 UTC |
| Port created | 15 APR 2018, 17:30:26 UTC |
| single | USB_ModeSwitch is (surprise!) a mode switching tool for controlling 'multi-mode' USB devices. More and more USB devices (especially high-speed WAN stuff, based on cell phone chipsets which are able to change their USB connection mode) have their MS Windows drivers onboard; when plugged in for the first time they act like a flash storage and start installing the driver from there. After installation (and on every consecutive plugging) the driver switches the mode internally, the storage device vanishes (in most cases), and a new device (like an USB modem) shows up. Modem maker "Option" calls that feature "ZeroCD (TM)" since it eliminates the need for shipping a separate driver carrier. On *nix platform this does not work for obvious reasons and the required mode switching has to be triggered manually. USB_ModeSwitch makes this process easy to handle by taking the important parameters from a configuration file and doing all the initialization and communication stuff, with heavy help from "libusb". |
| Build (only) |
gmake:primary:standard libusb:dev:standard (linux, netbsd) |
| Build and Runtime | libusb:primary:standard (linux, netbsd) |
| Runtime (only) | usb-modeswitch-data:single:standard |
| main | https://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/ |
| No other ports depend on this one. |