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    Thinkpad with Ericsson mobile broadband and Access Connections - how to make it work?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by jazdc, May 9, 2011.

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    jazdc Notebook Consultant

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    The title pretty much says it all. My T420 came with the Ericsson F5521gw mobile broadband card, and today I got my SIM from Swedish operator Tele2. Everything works flawlessly with the Huawei USB modem that Tele2 gave me, but I find myself completely unable to get Access Connections (or, for that matter, Windows' own utility) to connect using the built-in Ericsson card. I get as far es being asked for my PIN and seeing the available networks. Trying to connect, however, I only get a long wait followed by the information that the selected network is unavailable.

    I've tried searching both the web and these forums, but can't find anything that seems relevant. Does anyone know if there's an important step I've missed, or something like that?

    EDIT: RESOLVED
    I am not really sure what the problem was, but after installing the latest versions of Access Connections and the 3G card drivers (none of which Lenovo System Update had found - why?) and rebooting a couple of times, things just magically started working. Yay! =)
     
    jazdc, May 9, 2011
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