Sierra AirCard 880E on Ubuntu

To get your newly purchased Sierra AirCard 880E on your Ubuntu Hardy, you should follow these simple steps:

1. Make sure you have GCC on your computer: ‘sudo apt-get install gcc‘
2. Make sure you have kernel sources installed on your computer: ‘sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.24-19-generic‘
3. Download the driver from Sierra Wireless site
4. Extract and compile (‘make‘, ‘sudo make install‘)
5. Add to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-modem the line: ‘blacklist ehci_hcd’
6. Insert the device into the laptop. When everything is OK, you should see that a USB device is registered using ‘dmesg‘ shortly afterwards, or ‘lsusb‘
7. Configure /etc/wvdial.conf using the attached config file wvdial.conf
8. Add to /etc/ppp/peers the file wvdial

Done. To connect, you need to run ‘sudo wvdial &‘

I will add in the future a nice gksudo with a nice-looking connect/disconnect script

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