G'day, On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Rory Filer <rfiler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Recognise the Sierra Wireless 306 USB high speed HSPA+ wireless USB modem, >> as used by Telstra Bigpond's 21 Mb/s NextG product. >> >> Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@xxxxxxxx> >> --- >> > > Hi Greg > > That patch is partly correct, but not 100%. In fact we are in the process of submitting our final series of patches to the serial driver and we are waiting for some approvals even as I write this. Oh, that's nice to know. > So I would request that you retract your patch Consider my patch retracted. GregKH, sorry for the waste of time and the whitespace damage :-) > and obtain our driver from the site below for the time being. Here are some additional details... > > Your patch will work, but not completely. It requires additional logic to blacklist some of the interfaces exposed by the USB descriptor. Ok. Just idly curious now, but why would you blacklist the storage interface at 9? > [...] We also have a separate driver which you will need if you want to be able to use the modem like an ethernet device. Interesting... > KB Site for serial driver: > http://sierrawireless.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/500 Ah. I was going by this knowledge base article http://www.sierrawireless.com/faq/ShowFAQ.aspx?ID=601 which is what I managed to dig up in a few moments of googling. That appears to be older information, you might want to update or remove it. However I note that neither page mentions the 306 or 307 as supported devices. -- Greg. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
