CF-29 Mrk2 where are my com ports?????

So, I pulled the original WWLAN sled which was GPS only (this is a wireless ready 29) and put in a brand new never uninstalled Verizon EVDO Rev 0 GPS card. VZ watcher doesn't see the card, windows doesn't see the card, yet the card and its gps options are recongnized in the bios. VZ watcher see's the OEM Wifi without issues.

Bios is V 17

I have no ports visible in device manager (XP pro) other than the printer port.

What's going on here?

This card was band new, sealed with all the ESN tags never applied.

 

Reset your BIOS to default , then Reboot
Report back



Alex

 

Ok I have com 1, 6 7 and 8 now. Where did the GPS option go in the bios? It was on com 3 and now that part of the screen is blank!

 

Not sure on that, com 7 is for wwan on my mk4 and I beleve you need (2) com ports total for the wwan, either 6 or 8 might be your gps
Usualy its on com 3 or 4 and should show up in the bios
Look for data on those ports with the gps utility
http://go.notebookreview.com/?id=52...iew.com/panasonic/493840-cf-29-oem-gps-2.html
Reset the bios again and if it will not show up remove battery/ac adapter and reseat the wwan module, checking that there is a gps module there



Alex

 

I will try another bios reset and or battery pull. Neither Device Manager or VSZ watcher sees the card even though the card is obviously in the system BIOS, powers on/off with the control panel and appears to function.

 

Well, I've tried removing and installing the cards, several resets to default BIOS settings and all I can do is get the ports to show up in Device Manager and the WWAN card to show in the BIOS. That's it. VZ watcher and even the new VZaccess don't see the card and wont detect it. XP is not detecting new hardware.

I apparently have GPS on Com5, but Winfast navigator fails to display any incoming data and or crashes with a grid error.

I tried another identical card. Same results. Bad cards or? What am I doing wrong here?

 

Are you sure you have an EVDO card? There are a few of these cards being sold as EVDO when in fact they are the older SB555 CDMA 1XRTT cards. If it is an SB555 you will need to manually install the drivers and assign it the two com ports. I don't remember the exact procedure but you will need to get the driver from Panasonics discontinued models website the file will have installation instructions. The EVDO card uses internal USB ports and will be detected by Windows plug and play. So my guess is you have the old SB555.

 

Its a REV 0 EVDO card CF-VEW29VG3

 

I don't think you have an EVDO card if it has the SB555 modem it is not EVDO the EVDO cards use the EM5625D. I think what happened is a big corporation upgraded their modems and put the old modems in the new box. Is this by any chance one of those $5.00 modems on Ebay?

 

Yes I bought it off ebay. I took it apart and apparently it is an SB555 card despite the documention included indicating it was an EM5625D card. Guess I'm SOL at this point since that's a 1x card.

I did get the correct drivers and everything is now working with the card.

Next question is do I still have GPS or are these exclusive options of one another?

 

Glad to hear you got it working, these do not come with GPS onboard but they have a connector to piggyback the GPS module. You said in your OP that you have a GPS only sled, so what you need to do is remove the GPS module and antenna from that sled and install it in the new sled.

 

Read this thread on wwan cards for the cf-29
http://forum.notebookreview.com/panasonic/294735-wwan-card.html

Edit +
http://forum.notebookreview.com/panasonic/268431-cf-29-hspda-module.html
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http://www.toughwiki.com/index.php?title=CF-29



Alex