On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 12:50 +0100, Jan Ritzerfeld wrote:
I have a laptop with a Gobi 2000 wireless modem. The qcserial module is automatically loaded at boot but the device appears to be inoperative [no response to commands via minicom and /dev/ttyUSB0]. http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_OpenSUSE_12.2_on_a_ThinkPad_T410s Replace 12.2 by the oS version you use (goes back to 11.4). While your USB ids do not match, you should get the point: You need the gobi_loader package and the appropriate firmware copied to /lib/firmware/gobi/. Please see http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Qualcomm_Gobi_2000 for details. [...] Bus 001 Device 004: ID 03f0:241d Hewlett-Packard Gobi 2000 Wireless Modem (QDL mode) The USB id indicates that there was no firmware loaded. [...] In your other mail you said that if you install the old SSD and, thus, the
Am Freitag, 23. November 2012, 14:54:30 schrieb Adam Tauno Williams: old OS, it will work. Which OS is the old OS? Linux? Windows?
The SSD is an openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 installation. I mounted it on another workstation an I can't find any trace of gobi_loader of firmware on that drive. But it does initialize the device to three USB tty ports (I see that in the recorded /var/log/messages from that drive).
BTW, pleas note that the firmware survives a simple (warm) reboot. Thus, it sometimes looks like it works but a previous start of Windows loaded the firmware and not your current Linux. However, when installing the old SSD, you surely did a cold boot.
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