there is a known to be working doc for the ik40 dongle for OpenWRT 21/22/23:
I frankly don't know, if the ik41 works the same, but you could give it a try:
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/how-to-configure-and-setup-usb-alcatel-lte-link-key-ik40-and-alcatel-lte-mw40v