Sierra Wireless Aircard 775

Linux systems with a kernel older than 2.6.13-rc1

Examples of such systems:

• Suse 9.x
• Red Hat 9.0, some older Fedora Cores

The support site of Sierra Wireless has good instructions for hardware setup, but it can be done easier than that.

They suggest to edit /etc/pcmcia/config, which is a read-only file, even to root. This is done on purpose. However, you don't need to edit this file, as it will include any other file in that directory with the extension .opts.
This means that just putting a file in that directory, called SierraWirelessAC775EDGE.conf with the proposed contents, and putting the SW_775_SER.dat in the cis directory, will already do.

Linux systems with a kernel newer than 2.6.13-rc1

Examples of such systems:

• Suse 10.x
• Fedora Core 5
• current Gentoos
• Ubuntu

At least for Suse 10.1, it is no longer needed to do anything by hand, the card is recognized and installed correctly.

 
 
updated Wed Aug 2, 2006 by Klaas van Gend