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Posted: **Sun Dec 09, 2012 2:23 pm**

Hoj!

I bought Ericsson F5521gw off Ebay for my (now out of warranty) T500. Card arrived after 14 days and it's somewhat damaged -- it's metal part but I think otherwise everything is OK.

I already have partched bios for centrino ultimate 6300-N and I thought WWAN should not be a problem. At startup there is no bios error and card shows in device manager:

Unfortunatelly none of drivers that should wok -- doesn't:

Its generic card, not Lenovo branded:

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Ericsson F5521gw
USB\VID_0BDB&PID_1911 <- Lenovo Card
USB\VID_0BDB&PID_190D <- Generic Card

I switched to Ubuntu 12.04 and dmseg show this:

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[    7.732512] cdc_acm 2-4:1.1: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
[    7.733252] cdc_acm 2-4:1.3: ttyACM1: USB ACM device
[    7.739349] cdc_acm 2-4:1.9: ttyACM2: USB ACM device
[    7.747402] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_acm
[    7.747405] cdc_acm: USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters
[    7.747787] cdc_wdm 2-4:1.5: cdc-wdm0: USB WDM device
[    7.747834] cdc_wdm 2-4:1.8: cdc-wdm1: USB WDM device
[    7.747848] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_wdm
[    7.816957] cdc_ncm: 04-Aug-2011
[    7.831902] usb 2-4: MAC-Address: 0x02:0x80:0x37:...
[    7.832378] cdc_ncm 2-4:1.6: usb0: register 'cdc_ncm' at usb-0000:00:1d.7-4, CDC NCM, 02:80:37:ec:02:00

usb-list output:

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T:  Bus=02 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=03 Cnt=01 Dev#=  2 Spd=480 MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=02(commc) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  3
P:  Vendor=0bdb ProdID=190d Rev=00.00
S:  Manufacturer=Ericsson
S:  Product=F5521gw
S:  SerialNumber=4F4804..............
C:  #Ifs=11 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr=0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 0 Cls=02(commc) Sub=08 Prot=00 Driver=(none)
I:  If#= 1 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=02(commc) Sub=02 Prot=01 Driver=cdc_acm
/usr/bin/usb-devices: line 79: printf: 0a: invalid number
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=0a(data ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=cdc_acm
I:  If#= 2 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=0a(data ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=cdc_acm
I:  If#= 3 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=02(commc) Sub=02 Prot=01 Driver=cdc_acm
I:  If#= 4 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=0a(data ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=cdc_acm
I:  If#= 5 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=02(commc) Sub=09 Prot=01 Driver=cdc_wdm
I:  If#= 6 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=02(commc) Sub=0d Prot=00 Driver=cdc_ncm
I:  If#= 7 Alt= 1 #EPs= 2 Cls=0a(data ) Sub=00 Prot=01 Driver=cdc_ncm
/usr/bin/usb-devices: line 79: printf: 08: invalid octal number
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=02(commc) Sub=09 Prot=01 Driver=cdc_wdm
/usr/bin/usb-devices: line 79: printf: 09: invalid octal number
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=02(commc) Sub=02 Prot=01 Driver=cdc_acm

... and some TP power management also list as USB device:

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Bus 002 Device 002 ID 0bdb:190d control = auto, autosuspend_delay_ms =  2000 -- Ericsson Business Mobile Networks BV  (cdc_acm, cdc_wdm, cdc_ncm)

Device should be supported "out-of-the-box" (in Ubuntu), but networm nanager doesn't detect it.

Now I'm a bit lost. Is my card still whitelisted (have patched bios only for wifi cards, but if so I would expect an error at boot) or is there something else?

Has anyone succesffuly installed this card on older/unsupported thinkpad, like my T500 ... at all?

Any help appreciated,
b.

Posted: **Mon Dec 10, 2012 4:57 am**

Finally managed to install drivers by modifying INF files. Since I'm not sure posting such "manual" complies with forum rules -- I'd rather not

Only thing I still have to figure out is Lenovo GPS app which refuse to run, but device itself is working as Win7 "location sensor".

Anyone interested can PM me.

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