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

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On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 16:28 -0800, Greg KH 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.

Looks like a few more supported USB IDs, some autopm fixes, and some
IPv6 fixes in sierra_net.  Not too complicated a merge for Sierra to do,
I think.

Dan

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