sony-vaio-z-series team mailing list archive

[Henrik Olsson <henrik@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 05:36, vick <weasalandme@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Unless the device was pre-loaded with the firmware from the manufacturer you
> do need it. I have the US model Z21 and that had a small app that asked you
> which provider you want and loaded the firmware. I'm almost certain it did
> not have a firmware loaded before that.
>
> If you don't have the firmware loaded then you need the GobiAPI to do it and
> that one is just bad, I tried to make it work for Linux but ended up finding
> a windows example app to do it for me. And no, gobi_loader doesn't work
> anymore because the firmware loading model changed.
>
> If you do have the firmware loaded then all you need is GobiSerial compiled
> or modify the qcserial module to include your hardware IDs and then use
> regular wvdial or latest and greatest NetworkManager.  I've been using it
> for a while now and even switched to using GobiNet a week ago so I don't
> have to deal with the overhead of pppd and slow down of serial ports.

Hi, it seems my device had a preloaded firmware since i've gotten it
work with GobiSerial and wvdial.

I have managed to get an usb0 interface with GobiNet, but no success
with ModemManager/NetworkManager.

Could you expand upon how you got it to work with NetworkManager? Mine
just finds it as an ethernet device with "cable unplugged" as status.

I've tried using the daily trunk builds ppa for NM, but that did not help.

Regards,
Henrik