X301 upgrade Sierra Wireless MC8775 to MC8780???

[craigg]

I have an X301 with the factory installed AT&T Wan card. I have a MC8780 on hand and would like to install it to utilize the GPS features. Is this possible with just a simple swap of the cards? I read a few older posts where those with X300s needed to update the bios. Is this still necessary and if so who has the bios upgrade?

Thanks in advance!

[Peak2Peak]

As the MC8780 is not listed in the X301's HMM as a supported WWAN module, chance's are you may get the 1804 - Unauthorized WAN card is plugged in—Power off and remove the WAN card - error shown on boot up due to the card not being in BIOS whitelist, in which case a patch will be required.

Your title for this post mentions MC8775 - According to the X301's HMM, this WWAN card is not supported - The supported cards are Ericsson F3507g & Qualcomm® UNDP1 which both have in-built GPS - Confirm which factory installed WWAN card you have installed - If it is the Ericcson or Qualcomm you will then have GPS and all that is required will be the ThinkVantage GPS utility.

[craigg]

Thanks PeaktoPeak!

You saved me some time. I only assumed that my X301 had the same wan card as my prior x300 but you were right that I have the Ericsson card. I did a clean install a few months back when I bought this unit and I neglected to install the gps software. I'm using GPS now with MapPoint and it works very well