We have some ThinkPads T60 and X60 with internal MiniPCI UMTS / HSDPA Card. The Card is a Sierra MC8577 (USB Id 1199:6804). In RHEL5 there is a sierra Kernel Module which supports this card in general but Lenovo has it's own Product ID (6804). In Fedora 7 with Kernel vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2986.fc7 there is a newer Sierra Module that supports the card fine. Without the sierra Module we can use the card with the usb-serial Kernel Module but only with about 40 KB/s in Downlink. With the Sierra Module on Fedora 7 we get 140 - 150 KB/s!
Might be this changeset: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=033a3fb980b041c5b1c865d3e9dce9217d1dc94b
Created attachment 154851 [details] Update driver to 1.0.5
Created attachment 154852 [details] Patch to add device ID Patch based on upstream.
Created attachment 160592 [details] Test kernel with proposal applied patch Hello, I built and attached the test kernel package with applied patch to solve the problem. Could you please test the package on target machine and report here if the bug is solved? -- Ivan
Hans-Gerd, your comments are not automatically posted to BZ when entered in IT. I'll forward your message to BZ for you: Ivan, i tested your kernel on my x60. I get about 140 KB/s when downloading a file, about 45 KB/s when uploading and ping round trip times from 140 ms. The lsmod shows that the sierra module is loaded. So I think it's all OK. -- Hans-Gerd This event sent from IssueTracker by navid issue 118685
See also bug 247884.
Created attachment 198981 [details] Ivan's bigger backport after a review turnaround Ivan neglected to attach the patch which I acked, so doing it now. However, now that I looked at option.c for bug 249660, I think we should be a bit more proactive with the port. The original Kevin's driver had a few issues such as the use of -EINPROGRESS, since fixed.
Created attachment 199081 [details] Same as before, but with few more IDs removed On second thought, Ivan had a good idea. The current sierra wants to be too modern with dynamic URBs and everything. It's a bridge too far.
> Ivan neglected to attach the patch which I acked, so doing it now. However, > now that I looked at option.c for bug 249660, I think we should be a bit more > proactive with the port. The original Kevin's driver had a few issues such > as the use of -EINPROGRESS, since fixed. Is it necessary to attach posted patch here? I'm a newbie in Red Hat.
*** Bug 247884 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 249401 [details] The proposed patch Hello, I would like to ask you to test again a test kernel package. We found some issue that had to be solved. So we need to know if the current solution works well. Could you please test this kernel package and report a feedback? You can find it on: http://people.redhat.com/ivecera/bz232885/ Thanks a lot. -- Ivan
Ivan, the customer now requires the device to work on T61 so I had to add the correct USB IDs to the patch for USB_DEVICE(0x1199, 0x6813). With this tiny modification to your patch, the customer's feedback was positive. Thank you. -- Navid
Thank you Navid, I will send a corrected patch into mailing-list.
Created attachment 279781 [details] Final patch posted into kernel mailing list
Do we have access to hardware for testing?
Jay, I have a T61 here in EMEA available for testing. -- Navid
QE ack for RHEL5.2 then.
in 2.6.18-74.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5
this bug has been tagged for inclusion in the RHEL5.2 release notes. please post the necessary content for it. thanks!
Hi, the RHEL5.2 release notes will be dropped to translation on April 15, 2008, at which point no further additions or revisions will be entertained. a mockup of the RHEL5.2 release notes can be viewed at the following link: http://intranet.corp.redhat.com/ic/intranet/RHEL5u2relnotesmockup.html please use the aforementioned link to verify if your bugzilla is already in the release notes (if it needs to be). each item in the release notes contains a link to its original bug; as such, you can search through the release notes by bug number. Cheers, Don
Thanks Ivan. release note add to "Driver Updates => Network". Please advise (before April 15) if any further revisions are required. thanks!
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0314.html