Re: [Mbm-devel] Ericsson 5521gw WWAN card on Salix with 2.37.6 kernel

[Kaya S. <kay...@gm...>]

On 01/31/2012 09:58 AM, Torgny Johansson wrote:
> Hi!
>
> There is no native support in the 2.6.37 kernel (unless you want to
> use PPP, in that case you're good to go). You'll have to compile the
> NCM driver according to
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/mbm/index.php?title=MBM#For_f5521gw_modules
>
> I don't know if wicd works with mobile broadband modules. If it uses
> ModemManager as a backend then it should be ok (or if it uses PPP)
> otherwise you'd probably need to look at ModemManager/NetworkManager
> or oFono/connman, alternativley just use PPP with wvdial or similar
> tool.
>
> Regards
> Torgny
>

Thanks!

In the mean time I switched over to Fedora 16 with full support for my 
notebooks hardware features.

It works much better and I have access to everything that the machine 
contains :-)


Regards,


Kaya