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    CF-19 MK4 adding WWLAN

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by cheap4tw, Nov 9, 2014.

  1. cheap4tw

    cheap4tw Notebook Geek

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    Hello,

    I just purchased and installed a Sierra MC7700 WWAN card for my CF-19 MK4. My original MK4 didn't even have the jumper board where you set the WWAN dip switches.

    I swapped in a board from a CF-19 MK2 and set up the MC7700 for HSPDA put everything back together and my CF-19 bios doesn't show a WWAN option.

    One thing I noticed is that instead of a brown and black wire to attach to the WWAN card my CF-19 has a black and a green wire? Here is a picture:

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    Does the green wire signify anything different then the brown other then they changed wire colors?
     
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    Shawn Crackpot Search Ninja and Options Whore

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    Look in BIOS for optional kit section
     
    Shawn, Nov 9, 2014
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    WWWLAN is better :))

    Ok. Install your original WWAN board and use spgobi (search) to enable WWAN switch in your BIOS.
    Black wire is aux usually, another one is main, but I don't know whether it matters.
     
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  4. cheap4tw

    cheap4tw Notebook Geek

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    The original WWAN board doesn't have any jumper settings. Will it still work with WWAN?
     
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    Yes, you don't need jumpers.
     
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    Ok I swapped old board back, thanks.

    I'm gonna search for SPGobi as soon as I get the bottom cover back on.
     
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    Ok when I boot using SPGobi2 nothing happens. No bios update is installed.

    It shouldn't matter that I'm running windows 7 64bit right? I get an error if I try to run from within OS but I figured it wouldn't be an issue when it's being booted from.
     
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    Got it, had to load SPGobi2 onto a usb stick that was bootable to freedos. Then ran the autoexe.bat and it updated my bios.

    WWAN now shows up.
     
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    Congratulations :)
     
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    cheap4tw Notebook Geek

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    Thanks for all the help buddy.

    Also got the Sierra Watcher to work with Rogers and am connecting at 4G speeds.
     
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    Toughbook Drop and Give Me 20!

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    cheap4tw... Out of curiosity... What does that WWAN cost you per month to use?

    Congrats on getting it working BTW...
     
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    With rogers it is a $10 per month addon to my current cell phones data plan. I have 6gb per month as is right now so now the cell and the cf-19 share it.
     
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