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Comment 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.

Comment on Qualcomm Gobi WWAN Card on Windows 7 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.

Comment on Linq Aggregate Empty Sequence by Joseph Vannucci

Joseph Vannucci — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:41:05 +0000

Good find on this. I’ve found a lot of “check the count on the list” answers all over the interwebs.

Thanks!

Comment on USB Communications Device Class on 64-bit Windows by Omar Sahid

Omar Sahid — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:05:01 +0000

Thanks bro!!! you save us!!

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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:22:59 +0000

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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:08:53 +0000

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Comment on Qualcomm Gobi WWAN Card on Windows 7 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.

Comment on USB Communications Device Class on 64-bit Windows by Krister Renaud

Krister Renaud — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:26:31 +0000

I found this post interesting, but I would like to see the followup about signing the driver package or perhaps a link to some other resource with details on signing 64-bit packages utilizing built-in drivers.

Comment on Qualcomm Gobi WWAN Card on Windows 7 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

Comment on Jeff Atwood of Borg-StackOverflow Careers Assimilation by Scott

Scott — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:12:03 +0000

I pretty much agree. Making it free for CV-posters would actually provide more value to the potential employers… I have some sort of student membership and I’ve been contacted by an employer (haven’t been able to figure out how that works).

My main complaint is from the point of view of a potential job-seeker. Any employer can post a job advertisement on craigslist with a interesting technology, a not-boring business, and a list of benefits that are developer friendly and probably end the week with tons of resumes. But a potential employee…sometimes it’s so hard to find about companies. Dealing with recruiters sucks. Stackoverflow careers keeps the power in the employer’s hands.