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

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On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:43:59AM -0500, Autif Khan wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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
> 
> I have submitted patches that integrates these drivers.
> 
> The driver builds, I have not tested with a device though.
> 
> Since this is my first non-trivial patch - please let me know if I
> have made some mistake.

You forgot to copy the original authors of the patch, please do so.

greg k-h
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