Please update the Sierra Wireless kernel drivers to support the AT&T Shockwave USB modem. These are the only modems that AT&T is currently handing out so being able to support them ASAP would be nice. This is a drop-in replacement for linux/drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c.
Hello, I encounter a problem with the Dell Latitude 7480, Controlvault (driver 4.9.16.22, firmware 4.9.7.0), 'Sierra Wireless location sensor' installed on the UMTS card and the build-in Usbccid Smartcard Reader. I make use of bitlocker. The location sensor is standing inside the device manager with. Install software from manufacturer (Sierra Wireless). Same results, appears connected, recognized, strong signal reception, no data transmitted or received. Uninstalled all associated drivers and supporting software, uninstalled the device, suppressed the embedded installation software in the modem in hopes that windows update would find. This package installs the software (Wireless WAN driver) to enable thefollowing device. Sierra Wireless WWAN - Gobi 3000. SmartROC RAID-on-Chip Controllers offer the industry’s most reliable, secure and high-performance storage controller solutions. Built on the Smart Storage platform, SmartROCs significantly reduce operating costs and offer substantial power savings as compared to.
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Without this update, the Shockwave (AT&T's 308 model) will not enumerate ttyUSB devices with the serial driver.Once the drivers are updated you can connect through pppd with these scripts. Modify gsm_chat to use ttyUSB2 instead of ttyUSB0 then dial using 'pppd call gsm'.
Alternatively you can get the Serial & Direct IP driver for wwan0 ethernet interface. This includes linux/drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c and linux/drivers/net/usb/sierra_net.c Serial + Direct IP Driver
Tested on a bare Arch Linux box and Ubuntu running 2.6.35.To use the wwan0 interface...
Sierra Wireless Drivers
Tell modem to connect.AT!SCACT=0,1 closes the connection.Drivers Sierra Wireless Card Reader
Then bring up interface.Just exclude the sierra_net driver to not use wwan0 and we could just stick to using the current ppp way of using cellular modems.