On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Eric Lee Elliott<[email protected]> wrote: > I wrote in error that Sierra AC860 & AC875 air cards were supported by NM & > Linux. They were & now are not. Both cards continue to work well on Windiz > XP thru ATT. Both fail in current distros of Linux. > I know not how these cards fail using old versions of Linux that worked fine > when current. Kubuntu 7.04 & 7.1 both worked with the 860 & both now fail. > I have wasted several CDs & hours installing old versions of Fedora, Ubu & > Kubu that used to work with these 2 cards. > > Ubu & Kubu 9.04 do not install the 860 and find the 875 "not 3G capable". > Capable or not, it does > 2.8 Mb/S download using XP. > > Sierra Wireless wrote that I should install driver 1.72 to replace 1.32 in > current kernel. That does not make sense since I have not installed a > Sierra driver since kubu 7.1. > > I can buy another 885U to replace lost 885U Sierra but I am not happy to see > 2 year old equipment abandoned, not even usable as spares. >
I have an 860 and it works fine, did you install the firmware (I think this is still needed on 9.04)? # Download the firmware from http://www.sierrawireless.com/resources/faq/PC_Card/AirCard775/Aircard_Linux.tar # Extract SW_8xx_SER.dat and rename it to SW_7xx_SER.cis # Copy the SW_7xx_SER.cis to /lib/firmware _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
