Lenovo x201 WWAN module in Lucid kernel

[Torsten Spindler]

The WWAN module of the x201 does not work out of the box in Lucid. A rather invasive patch by mjg59 is needed. This topic was already discussed on the Ubuntu kernel mailing list, see https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2010-May/010607.html and following.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: linux-image-2.6.32-22-generic 2.6.32-22.36
Regression: No
Reproducible: Yes
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC268 Analog [ALC268 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC268 Analog [ALC268 Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: spindler 2067 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xca000000 irq 22'
   Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC268'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0268,11790602,00100003 HDA:11c11040,11790001,00100200'
   Controls : 14
   Simple ctrls : 11
Date: Thu Jun 10 09:08:51 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=57a1db07-0999-47b3-a2df-ca067eab2bd2
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
MachineType: TOSHIBA TECRA M10
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=91ecb295-f10d-4a10-a768-721774d1e977 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.34
SourcePackage: linux
dmi.bios.date: 09/10/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.bios.version: Version 3.00
dmi.board.asset.tag: 0000000000
dmi.board.name: Portable PC
dmi.board.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.board.version: Version A0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0000000000
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: TOSHIBA
dmi.chassis.version: Version 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnTOSHIBA:bvrVersion3.00:bd09/10/2009:svnTOSHIBA:pnTECRAM10:pvrPTMB3C-0L506F:rvnTOSHIBA:rnPortablePC:rvrVersionA0:cvnTOSHIBA:ct10:cvrVersion1.0:
dmi.product.name: TECRA M10
dmi.product.version: PTMB3C-0L506F
dmi.sys.vendor: TOSHIBA

[Torsten Spindler (tspindler)]

The debug info is most likely not useful as the laptop this bug was reported from is not an x201.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi Torsten,

If you could also please test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Stefan Bader (smb)]

Was picked up by the automatic triaging. Setting states back.

[Stefan Bader (smb)]

The kernel parts are implemented by the following commits:
0d4561947b8ddd5d944bdbbdc1ea1d6fd9a06041 usb serial: Add generic USB wwan support
8b4c6a3ab596961b784659c71dc24b341f938a1a USB: option: Use generic USB wwan code
3d7e59ad88fdb6bc50ae9b7e822d4bb5f68b68f9 USB: qcserial: Use generic USB wwan code
e07896e62abbf7a741a5cd5b25ba7637bdf91ad0 USB: qcserial: Add support for Qualcomm Gobi 2000 devices

Which are included in 2.6.35-rc1, thus will be contained in Maverick.

[Stefan Bader (smb)]

Updated status to indicate this will be fixed as an update to linux-backports-modules-2.6.32.

[Stefan Bader (smb)]

An initial version of the LBM package has been uploaded to http://people.canonical.com/~smb/lp592046/. Can someone please do some testing? Due to licensing the package cannot provide the required firmware files. Please see http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/gobi_loader/ for more information.

[Torsten Spindler (tspindler)]

@ LVM: Can someone test the new lbm package?

[Kaspar Metz (kap)]

Confirming that the LBM package from #7 enables the gobi 2000 in my Thinkpad T410s to work with Network Manager as expected (using 2.6.32-23)
I used amss.mbnand apps.mbn from the folder "6" and UQCN.mbn from the folder "UMTS", my carrier is o2 (Germany).

It would be great to have a package for 2.6.23-24 which is the current kernel in lucid atm.

Note: also see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/554099 comment #77, another success report.