On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 5:28 PM, Bryan Vyhmeister <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:12:04AM +0200, David Coppa wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 10:40 AM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > On 2016-04-20, Bryan Vyhmeister <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I recently purchased a Lenovo ThinkPad X260 and I decided to also order >> >> the Sierra Wireless EM7455 LTE Wireless WAN device installed as well. >> > >> > I'd look for other OS which support this device and see which driver >> > they attach to.. >> >> I'm sorry, >> >> It's a MBIM (Mobile Broadband Interface Model) device: >> >> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/cdc_mbim.txt > > Thanks for the info. Sounds like a new driver is needed or lots of work > to extend umsm(4). If my research is correct, the older cards supported > by umsm(4) would be supported by the qcserial driver in Linux which is > totally different than this cdc_mbim driver. I will research the > situation further. For now I have an expensive Mini PCIe slot filler.
The vast majority of the devices supported by umsm(4) under OpenBSD require the "option" kernel module on Linux, the USB driver for GSM and CDMA modems. http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/usb/serial/option.c https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/USB_mobile_broadband_modem Cheers! David
