sony-vaio-z-series team mailing list archive

[Simon Brown <smb@xxxxxxxx>]

At Sun, 21 Nov 2010 21:40:19 +0100,
Martin L wrote:
> Maybe it's just the Windows drivers which are not quite as good as they 
> should, but I fear the Gobi hardware is just nor nearly as good as my 
> external Huwai, so given my problems getting Gobi to work under Linux I 
> decided to give at a rest.

:-(

> I tried following this guide, but it does not quite work for
> me:http://westhoffswelt.de/blog/0045_howto_setup_sony_vaio_x_wwan_gobi_2000_under_ubuntu_linux.html

That looks old and I don't want to be patching things 

> Somehow the Ubuntu network applet thinks the device is something 
> different from my Huwai. At least for the Huwai I can set the APN for my 
> provider, whereas for the Gobi the settings dialog is different and does 
> not allow me to set the APN.

I've just had a quick play and loading firmware 1 network manager
reports that a CDMA modem is attached. Now is that CDMA in the sense
of UMTS or as in American CDMA I wonder.

Simon