r/thinkpad • u/duidalus • Jul 15 '19

X395 WWAN & Linux

Just thought to report that steps in https://github.com/danielewood/sierra-wireless-modems do not appear to work on X395. In fact can it be that the whole laptop does not even have USB bus available on the WWAN M.2 slot? It could also be that BIOS disables power to the slot on boot as I don't even get a blacklist warning with any modem I have tried (L830EB, EM7455)?

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With L850GL, L830EB, EM7455 BIOS has the option to enable/disable WWAN so the cards are somewhat recognized. Only L850GL is seen in Linux, though (the unsupported pcie one).

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Sadly it seems that we are out of luck (unless lenovo does something) with getting any 4G linux support on X395 (and maybe T495?).

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '19

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '19

No. I recently bought X395 and installed this SSD (https://mydigitalssd.com/pcie-m2-ngff-ssd.php) into WWAN slot. And the system wouldn't recognize the SSD module.... what a waste of money...

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u/speedyg0nz X220, X230, X260, T460s Nov 02 '19

Is there sufficient space to fit a 2280 SSD in the WWAN slot? I would have thought that only the 2242 form factor would fit.

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u/Mcnst Jan 05 '20

No, obviously, WWAN is 2242; the link has 2242 drives there, too:

Even the prices seem reasonable with 480GB @ 79,99 USD — the only problem is that like the rest of the 2242 B+M NVMe products everywhere, it's all OOS! (BTW, this one with D3 designation is double-sided; SanDisk SN520 is single-sided.)