Huawei E173 mobile data card is not working on RHEL 7.1

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Issue

  • Huawei E173 data card is correctly switched by usb_modeswitch but not detected by them ModemManager.
  • There is no dialogue asking for the PIN after the installation of the network-manager-applet.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1
  • Huawei E173

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