Notice: the text in red has been deleted from the previous revision, the text in green has been added in this revision and the text in gray has not been changed.
differences in the entry: vendor
Attachmate-Corporation
differences in the entry: model name
Sierra AirPrime EM7455
differences in the entry: possible other names of the device
EM7455
differences in the entry: VendorID:ProductID code of the device
1199:9079
differences in the entry: year of commercialization
not-specified
differences in the entry: interface
M.2
differences in the entry: GNU/Linux distribution used for the test
trisquel_10_0
differences in the entry: tested with the following kernel libre
differences in the entry: does it work with free software?
yes
differences in the entry: free driver used
differences in the entry: Description
This is the identical chip from a Thinkpenguin product: USB 4G LTE-Advanced Modem for GNU/Linux (TPE-USB4GLTE), ThinkPenguin claims it to be blobless, and is a linux-libre compatible product. So I'm bringing the infomation of the product's chip here.
The chip it self is commonly found in m.2 packaging, but also rarely available as mini-PCI-E. It has two modes which are MBIM and QMI, so it can be fit into some routers, enabling LTE functionalities. (I'm talking about using OpenWRT, and of course LibreCMC would also do the job I guess.)
NOTE: I don't own this chip, all I do is gathered the information from the official sites like ThinkPenguin and Sierra Wireless. The usb-id is looked up from a database. All I know is ThinkPenguin will not lie about liberty (if not why are they doing this in the hard way?) So if anyone had this product/chip, and found I was wrong, feel free to edit this page!
PS: I really don't understand why H-node parses Sierra Wireless's VID into some "attachmate" stuff. There's another entry with correct parsing, but mine is not that way?
The contents of this page are in the Public Domain. (see the
CC0 page for detailed information). Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, sell, or distribute the text for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means.
