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[Danilo Šegan <danilo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

У сре, 29. 09 2010. у 13:36 +0200, André Bergner пише:
> Hi Vaio-Z-Linux team,
> 
> did anybody manage to get the build-in Gobi UMTS modem to work with
> Ubuntu Lucid?
> It works fine with my Karmic installation.
> 
> I don't understand where the problem is. The device gets loaded by the
> qcserial module ( /dev/ttyUSB0 is visible ).
> But when I run lsusb I still see only   05c6:9221 Qualcomm, Inc.   and
> not   05c6:9222 Qualcomm, Inc.
> I've compiled and installed the gobi_loader and copied the correct
> firmware in the correct place.
> No success.

There were changes in qcserial driver that broke gobi_loader.  There
were packages which provided necessary support for using gobi_loader
even with Lucid.  Some of that might be listed here:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/554099

I did manage to get it going, but if you are not looking for trouble,
you can as well wait for Maverick (due on October 10th) where everything
should be fine.

Cheers,
Danilo