Sierra EM7455 not recognized

[Aleksander Morgado]

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 6:47 AM, Tomek Mańko <jaennirin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, it turns out the explanation was pretty mundane - I was duped by my
> worplace. I asked for a L460 with LTE modem, PM passed on a request for a
> L460
> with an LTE modem and apparently requisitioning decided to save by buying
> one
> without. When I opened it up the M.2 socket was just empty ~~'
>

:/

> While I'm pretty pissed about that there's also a silver lining. It seems
> that
> Lenovo whitelists another modem for this laptop - Huawei ME906S.
> Would it maybe be a better/more supported choice considering problems other
> people seem to have to get the Sierra working? Is it an equivalent modem or
> is
> it better to buy Sierra and just wait for better drivers?

In this very specific case, we still don't have the EM7455 working
properly as of today, so likely the ME906S is a better choice (today).

See these emails from Bjørn
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/modemmanager-devel/2016-June/003141.html
and Andreas Fett
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/modemmanager-devel/2016-March/002726.html
about the ME906S.

-- 
Aleksander
https://aleksander.es