The Lenovo T430s I have for work comes with a Verizon Wireless 4G card
built-in. It took weeks to get it working on Windows 7. Turned out that
I had a bad SIM card.
Once I was able to get it to work in Windows, it was time to get it
working in Ubuntu.
The USB ID for the MC7750 is 114F:68A2. It is also listed in Windows as
"Gobi 4000 HS-USB Modem".
Ubuntu didn't recognize the 4G modem out of the box. I found a driver
[1]here. [2]Here is more information. This modem wasn't in there, but I
went ahead and modified the source to add in the USB ID. Here are my
diffs:
[3]sierra.patch and [4]sierra_net.patch
Save these to the folder where you downloaded the driver. Then
tar xvf v3.2_1740_kernel-3.0.directIP.tar
cd v3.2_1740_kernel-3.0.directIP
patch -p0 < ../sierra.patch
patch -p0 < ../sierra_net.patch
make
sudo make install
and then reboot.
Success! Or sort of. It showed up as registered on Verizon. I could see
the signal strength. Finding the right settings for NetworkManager is
the next step.
There are three options for the number:
#777
*99#
*99***3#
*99***4#
The username should be the
[email protected] and the password is
vzw.
I'm still working on this. It isn't dialing, but I'm having a hard time
finding the right combination.
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My original entry is here: [5]Verizon Wireless/Sierra Wireless MC7750
on Lenovo T430s with Ubuntu 12.0.4.1. It posted Mon, 10 Dec 2012
20:31:56 +0000.
Filed under: technology, Lenovo, sierra wireless, t430s, Ubuntu,
verizon,
References
1.
http://www.sierrawireless.com/resources/support/drivers/linux/v3.2_1740_kernel-3.0.directIP.tar
2.
http://mycusthelp.net/SIERRAWIRELESS/_cs/AnswerDetail.aspx?sSessionID=DBDAF438E9974D7F879C90A87F046094DDVSFWVP&aid=44
3.
http://prjorgensen.com/files/sierra.patch.txt
4.
http://prjorgensen.com/files/sierra_net.patch.txt
5.
https://www.prjorgensen.com/2012/12/10/verizon-wirelesssierra-wireless-mc7750-on-lenovo-t430s-with-ubuntu-12-0-4-1/
