Fedora15 & Qualcomm gobi 2000 (Lenovo W510)

Hey,

I installed Fedora 15 and I couldn't use my broadband modem, with my Lenovo W510 thinkpad out of the box,

In order to make it work, I had to load the Qualcomm Gobi USB chipset firmware, which seems to be required in order to use the device as a modem,

Following are the instructions how to do that:

1) Install GCC via yum - 'sudo yum install gcc'
2) Install Gobi Loader, you can find the srpm here 'http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/tmp/gobi/gobi_loader-0.7-1.src.rpm'
3) The firmware is required, for Gobi 2000 chipset:
- You need three files: [amss.mbn apps.mbn UQCN.mbn],
- You can find the firmware files on a windows OS or download the drivers from the vendor's site. (probably possible to download the windows package and extract it with wine)
(If you have a windows installed with Quallcom, then you can find the files under under Program Files (x86)/QUALCOMM/Images/Lenovo/12)
- Copy the three files into /lib/firmware/gobi
4) Unload and reload the qcserial driver, or easier, just reboot your machine, NetworkManager 0.8.x that ships with Fedora 15 should recognize your device modem and it should be ready to be used.


G'luck.