Vodafone K4203 Mobile Broadband On CentOS7

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Hello,

I hope someone can hlep me take this hurdle towards using CentOS7
I’m trying to get a usb 3-g dongle to work on CentOS7

On CentOS6 I can follow the instructions that come with the device to get it to work:

1. Insert stick
2. Dismiss all popups about running the auto install scripts
3. Open terminal
4. cd $HOME
5. mkdir vfinstall
6. cd vfinstall
7. (cd /media/”Vodafone Mobile Broadband” && tar -cvf – .) | tar -xf <96>
8. chmod +x autorun.sh install_linux
9. sudo ./autorun.sh
10. Type user password
11. Wait for last command to finish, then close terminal

or just cd /media/Vodafone Mobile Broadband
./ install_linux

I also tested the stick on Fedora21, it connects without installing anything.

On CentOS7 I see this:

[root@jvermeulen ~]# dmesg | tail -n15
[ 2352.742416] usb 2-2: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci-pci
[ 2352.865172] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendord1, idProduct1c
[ 2352.865186] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 2352.865193] usb 2-2: Product: HUAWEI Mobile
[ 2352.865200] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Vodafone(Huawei)
[ 2352.865207] usb 2-2: SerialNumber: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
[ 2352.913434] usb-storage 2-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 2352.913791] scsi host6: usb-storage 2-2:1.0
[ 2353.930584] scsi 6:0:0:0: CD-ROM HUAWEI Mass Storage 2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 2353.933129] sr 6:0:0:0: [sr1] scsi-1 drive
[ 2353.935258] sr 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
[ 2354.156240] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
[ 2354.156261] SELinux: initialized (dev sr1, type iso9660), uses genfs_contexts

[root@jvermeulen ~]# tail -f /var/log/messages May 11 21:05:04 jvermeulen kernel: usb 2-1: Product: HUAWEI Mobile May 11 21:05:04 jvermeulen kernel: usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Vodafone(Huawei)
May 11 21:05:04 jvermeulen kernel: usb 2-1: SerialNumber: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
May 11 21:05:04 jvermeulen kernel: usb-storage 2-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected May 11 21:05:04 jvermeulen kernel: scsi host5: usb-storage 2-1:1.0
May 11 21:05:04 jvermeulen mtp-probe: checking bus 2, device 3: “/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-1”
May 11 21:05:04 jvermeulen mtp-probe: bus: 2, device: 3 was not an MTP device May 11 21:05:05 jvermeulen kernel: scsi 5:0:0:0: CD-ROM HUAWEI Mass Storage 2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
May 11 21:05:05 jvermeulen kernel: sr 5:0:0:0: [sr2] scsi-1 drive May 11 21:05:06 jvermeulen udisksd[2765]: Mounted /dev/sr2 at /run/media/jvermeulen/Vodafone Mobile Mroadband on behalf of uid 15587

and the I see this EM:

May 11 21:06:37 jvermeulen dbus-daemon: dbus[773]: [system] Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type=”method_call”, sender=”:1.12″ (uid=0 pid