Re: modem-manager fails on Gobi 2000 UMTS card in a Thinkpad W510, error in AT+CMEE

[Waldemar Brodkorb <mail waldemar-brodkorb de>]

Hi Stefan,
Stefan Armbruster wrote,

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to enable the builtin Gobi 2000 UMTS card on a Thinkpad W510.
> System is a Ubuntu Lucid 64bit, modem-manager compiled from current git.
> UMTS card's USB-ID: 05c6:9205 (after loading the firmware, 05c6:9204 before)
> 
> When trying to connect, modem-manager sends a CMEE command resulting in
> an error:
> DEBUG: <1275421334.403788> (ttyUSB0): --> 'AT+CMEE=1<CR>'
> DEBUG: <1275421334.415006> (ttyUSB0): <-- '<CR><LF>ERROR<CR><LF>'
> 
> I've followed the debugging procedure from
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingModemmanager. In order not to pollute
> the list, the logs are placed on pastebin:
> mm-test.py output: http://pastebin.com/pRiinrSU
> modem-manager output: http://pastebin.com/HyHSpGhN (esp. l. 53f)
> network-manager output: http://pastebin.com/x7UZ20zm
> 
> I assume the UMTS card is not detected correctly. Can anyone give me
> some hints how to get that stuff running?

Not sure if the modem is the same as in a Lenovo Thinkpad X201.
But I only got this working with a patched kernel:
http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/gobi_loader/
http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/gobi_loader/kernel_patches/

Which firmware do you loaded and how?

best regards
        Waldemar