Re: AC860 & AC875 Sierra aircards not supported.

[Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com>]

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Eric Lee Elliott<eric ericelliott us> 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