Comments on: Sierra Wireless 595U / Sprint on Linux

By: Ursella Quirin

Ursella Quirin — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:06:40 +0000

Great, thanks!

By: ritchie gypsy

ritchie gypsy — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:36:53 +0000

This modem is fantastic I have had no trouble I use it in a truck thru 48 states lost network connection only once. the 595u is great the gps isn’t very good. But i use another brand of antenna for gps and the 595u for netwoek hanks sprint

By: Scott Crogg

Scott Crogg — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:21:43 +0000

I am also having trouble with my Sprint 595U. It connects and operates well for 30-45 minutes, then goes to “local only” (no internet connection). I think this is due to the internal battery draining, which I thought would only happen with a weak signal, but happens regardless. If this is a power issue, would the PCI card version be a better option, or even a powered USB hub? Need to figure out before my 30-day grace period is up! Thanks for any responses.

By: Scott Oertel

Scott Oertel — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:21:26 +0000

Nice walk through, it has a few missing steps which I covered in my own how-to regarding the Sierra 595U

http://www.gawr.com/2007/07/25/setting-up-a-linux-gateway-with-seirra-595u/

By: John Goerzen

John Goerzen — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:11:02 +0000

I have given up on that project for the moment. I don’t think I was ever able to restore those files.

By: Vince

Vince — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:48:50 +0000

John, I was reading a post you made about restoring from Central Point Backup in Vmware.
I am having problems doing same and did not realize there was an extra sector on the floppies. How did you resolve the issue? Can you suggest a way I could restore my 1993 CPBACKUP?

thanks!
v

By: Tony Corcetti

Tony Corcetti — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:38:50 +0000

The Sierra 595U wireless aircard doesn’t seem to work that well. Well, when it works it works very well, but the problem is getting websites to stay online. It seems as if the signal goes away after about 5 minutes of useage. Trying to pull up a website is like pulling teeth. It always reads: the website is not available, or the address is invalid. Not worth $60.00 a month.

By: James Graves

James Graves — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:51:29 +0000

Yes, the sierra driver is the one you want. Kevin Lloyd has posted preliminary patches, which, among other things, add the product ID for the 595U.

The sierra driver has larger URBs than the generic serial (I think). Any any rate, you want large URBs for good throughput.

By: Jon Kåre Hellan

Jon Kåre Hellan — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:54:57 +0000

You can probably get this card to run with the sierra driver if you’re running the 2.6.21 kernel and follow the recipe at
“http://jk.ufisa.uninett.no/usb/”.

As from 2.6.21, you can add new vendor and product IDs to an existing USB serial driver without recompiling.

595U is already in the Linus tree, and there were no code changes, only IDs added to the table. It’s quite likely that the sierra driver will perform better.

By: Michael Greb

Michael Greb — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:08:35 +0000

I’ve always used blank username/password with Sprint. In fact, my 720U’s install stuffs in OS X left them as blank though the windows software did fill them in.