Re: Please upgrade the driver for Sierra Wireless USB-to-WWAN modems from the manufacturer's website

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I've already sent off an e-mail to linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx asking
them to submit to the linux kernel.  Still waiting on a response from
them.

Tom

On 28 February 2012 11:28, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:21:04AM +1100, Tom Cassidy wrote:
>> I have a Sierra Wireless 320U USB-to-WWAN modem that does not work with the
>> current sierra and sierra_net drivers included in the Linux kernel.  The
>> manufacturer has an updated driver available from their website at
>> http://mycusthelp.net/SIERRAWIRELESS/_cs/AnswerDetail.aspx?aid=44
>>
>> My modem device works after installing this updated driver.  I tested using the
>> current Ubuntu-precise development release with the mainline kernel release
>> 3.3.0-030300rc5-generic from
>> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.3-rc5-precise/
>>
>> The driver versions in linux-3.3-rc5 are:
>> sierra: v.1.7.16
>> sierra_net: v.2.0
>>
>> The driver versions for the updated drivers from Sierra Wireless are:
>> sierra: v.1.7.40
>> sierra_net: v.3.2
>>
>> The direct link to the updated driver is at
>> http://www.sierrawireless.com/resources/support/drivers/linux/v3.2_1740_kernel-3.0.directIP.tar
>
> Care to ask the sierra wireless developers to send us patches to achive
> this?  I can't grab a tarball from a web site and just blindly apply it
> to the kernel tree, that might not work.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
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