Comments on: Qualcomm Gobi WWAN Card on Windows 7

By: Tocosonic

Tocosonic — Sun, 23 May 2010 23:09:19 +0000

Hi, I want to share some experience and a solution which took me about 2 days to figure out.
I’ve had a problem with the Qualcomm GOBI 1000 card in my Elitebook 2530p on Win7 x64. The most recent drivers from HP (posted around 04/2010) are actually quite old (07/2009 and 12/2008) and caused severe problems (BSOD) after switching off the WWAN module or going to hibernate or to sleep (maybe that’s because of VMware Player – someone mentionned something like this on an HP forum).
I’ve got a current driver release from Lenovo (11/2009) and managed to update the provided *.inf files. Now I can install those Lenovo drivers on my HP notebook and everything works fine :-) I don’t even need a connection manager, because Win 7 recognizes the card and offers it like a WLAN network. Very cool

Before installing those drivers, all references to the old HP-provided drivers must be removed (files and registry entries).

If someone could offer some webspace of about 130 MB, I could provide the install file.

By: wendell wilson

wendell wilson — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:34:44 +0000

Thank you so much for posting this. I was able to use the source code you posted to get my Gobi UNDP-1 (device ID 0×9211) (I think this is a gobi 1000?) to work with Winfows 7 x64. It seems that the qualcomm downloader service is horribly buggy and generally a piece of crap.

I added my device ID to the config file in your project, recompiled, tweaked my settings in the qualcomm ini and firmware loads. Then I was able to manually the x64 drivers for the COM devices, composite device, etc from one of the packages.

This all started trying to upgrade from xp 32 bit to Windows 7 x64. So the source was a really great find and I have packaged your program as a service. I think I will add some code to let this run as a service, detect an S3 resume (or whatever its called) and reload the firmware in that case.

I was unable to get this working with the lenovo, gateway or acer drivers. It seems those drivers were meant for different vendor/device IDs.

So thanks very much for posting this very helpful post.

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By: Josh Perry

Josh Perry — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:38:09 +0000

Sorry, this code wasn’t written with XP in mind. You’re on your own unless someone else can give you a hand.

By: Heiko

Heiko — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:01:09 +0000

We have a problem with this damn card using Windows XP!
Card (HP un2400 / GOBI 1000) is installed and powered. Then the USBLoader is found in the device manager. That’s all! No other interfaces (Ethernet, Composite Device…) get’s loaded.
I think that the QDLoader is not working correct. Does anybody has any idea how to trigger this manually?
Or maybe we have a service/file disabled/changed that this blody service is using….

Help!
Heiko

By: Bill Rothwell

Bill Rothwell — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:37:36 +0000

Hi there,

I have Sony Z51XG/B with Gobi 9222 card.
All the ports show up – ethernet, WWAN and especially HS-USB COM6 (diagnostic) and HS-NMEA COM5 (NMEA) GPS ports.

However:

a) I CAN connect to mobile phone services – this is fine
b) I CAN NOT see any data coming out of the GPS part of the card.
It seems it is disabled or not setup…

What I would *really* like to do is use the GPS functionality that obviously seems built into the chip. I have contacted Qualcomm who just say ‘contact Sony!!’

Please advise!

By: Joanna

Joanna — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:54:05 +0000

I found a solution and thought I would share:
Problem was:
New Lenovo T400 laptop with Windows 7 and Qualcomm 9202 embedded Verizon Mobile Broadband modem.
Lenovo’s Access Connections would not let me use the WWAN card to access the internet, saying that the Sim Card was not inserted, and the WAN card was not activated. Yet it would not let me activate it. Meanwhile, Verizon Wireless tells me that everything is set up properly and ready to go.
So I downloaded VZ Access Manager from the verizonwireless.com site (even though it says that Windows 7 is not supported), and used that to “activate” the card. Using VZ Access Manager, the program tells me the SIM card is not inserted…but, aha, it says that I can switch to CDMA. I clicked “yes” and now everything works perfectly!

By: Dean

Dean — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:23:31 +0000

https://coll777.securesites.net/sdk/getfile.php?file=Gobi_1000_SDK_Win.zip&dir=GOBI_1000
not sure if this will work but i found a link to the GOBI SDK

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