Cf-53 wwan activation and setup

Hi all,

I appreciate that this is my first post and I dislike when people ask for things on thier forst forum posts on others that I moderate but this issue has been driving me to distraction!

I have a panasonic toughbook cf-53 jawzyf2 and i am trying to activate the wwan facility. I have come up against the optional kit configuration in the bios which keeps asking for a password that i just dont have and cant seem to find. If someone could help me with this id be eternally grateful

Thanks in advance
Lee

 

toughkit

 

Hi Shawn, is that a resource i should be looking for? This is a genuine enquiry that i need help with

Cheers
Lee

 

That is the password you need to get into it

 

Thank you for this, as ive been trying to find this for over a week!

Any idea what the hex code is to active it and what version of the drivers i may need from the Panasonic webiste?

Thanks again

 

check your massages.
code is 4 or 04 maybe?

 

I have put this in the bios and enabled the wwan however windows doesnt seem to see the new hardware. I have lots of wwan miniport drivers in the device manager but i cant install any of the drivers from Panasonic website. Any further ideas?

 

Where did you get the WWAN card? What card is it?

 

try hex of 8

 

If you got the WWAN card from another brand of laptop then it will not work . Only one from a Toughbook will work.

 

It is an ericsson f5521gw the same as should have been shipped with my cf-53 but it was advertised as lenovo.

Do i need to find another f5521gw but out of a toughbook?

 

Nope...will not work. Must be from a Toughbook. I bet we have a 100 threads here where others have tried and failed....sorry

 

Oh man i will keep a look out for a toughbook one. Thank you both for your help getting me this far

 

Stay away from the ones from china. They say they will work but don't. Always ask the seller if it came out of a Toughbook before you buy it.

 

Thank you for the advise with all this

 

Hi guys,
I have a similar problem. I put the module WWAN into the tablet Panasonic FZ-G1 (mk1), but I can not activate it in the BIOS, because menu "optional kit" is not available. Is suitable password "toughkit" to FZ-G1? The module WWAN was taken from the other tablet Panasonic FZ-G1 (mk1).
I am sorry for my English!

Many thanks
Andrey

 

toughkit is the password.

 

Thank you very much!!!

 

Hi all,
A small remark...
The password touhgkit is correct! It's greats news for me. ))
When I needed to write wireless wwan id.
I compared wireless wwan id from my another FZ-G1 which has WWAN.
FZ-G1 without WWAN has wireless wwan id ff
FZ-G1 with WWAN has wireless wwan id d
I changed wireless wwan id from ff to d and all.
Now I have WWAN on the both FZ-G1.
Wireless wwan id d suit to both WWAN adapters: Sierra MC8305 and Sierra MC7710

 

Thanks for the follow up and info.

 

Ha

Does the Pin20 trick not work anymore?

 

That's a good question...anyone

 

Pin 20 mod was for wifi.
Did that work on wwan also?

 

Yes, cause it is also PCI-Express Had done this on some Toughbooks, but not on a CF-53. Only downside is, u can not disable via Wireless Switch Utility if u disconnect pin20. But on some cards it does work via the utility if I soldered an pull-up resistor between pin 20 and 3.3V on the card.

 

Arte Johnson says..Very Interesting.

Makes sense. PCIE interface is the same