Hello Guys,
This modem card (Sierra Wireless Aircard 555) is connected and activated to a desktop with XP sp2.
I have now established a Ethernet LAN, with SAMBA, with this desktop and one Thinkpad 600 notebook running Linux Mandriva 10.1 OE. I would like to use this modem from my Thinkpad running Linux.

On the back of the card is some information:
Sierra Wireless, Inc. CDMA 2000
FCCID: N7NACRD555
Canada: 2417292170A,2417332334A
Part# 1200470 and 3 bar-codes as follows:
E03020901398015
09900122450
6301DE52

I don't know which ship-set it is. Waiting for response from the manufacturer.

The Card is multifunction and can also be used as a phone. I will only use it for Internet in linux.

Anybody using this card?
Can anybody give some clues, advice on how to proceed.

well the googling that i did brought me this info..
the chipset as i can find runs on the MSM5105 Chipset from qualcomm. i couldn't find anything that spacifically stated that fact as #1 i don't have the initiative to run thru every hit i get on different combinations of sierra+aircard+555+linux+chipset and #2 i have that kind of time right now.
the second thing i found was this site. Sierra Wireless AirCard 555 for linux this was the first thing i found when looking up your card. go figure... The second hit on google.
i hope that this helps...

oh... and i did a hcl check on LQ and mandrivalinux.com and didn't find either the chipset listed or the sierra company name. good luck... i hope that the second link helps.

I can confirm that the chip-set is:
AC555 uses Qualcomm MSM5105 chipset

I want to share this internet connection. I have turned on "Allow other network users to
connect through this computer's internet connection" in "Network connection"

I have tried to run the web browser but after a long time the browser give up and return "cannot find the website"

I have extracted some lines from messages which I believe have impact on the issue.

192 xinetd[3215]: Started working: 3 available services

192 crond[3365]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok)
192 crond: crond startup succeeded
192 kernel: mtrr: 0xe0000000,0x200000 overlaps existing 0xe0000000,0x100000
192 smbd[3392]: [2005/09/09 08:45:40, 0] param/loadparm.c:lp_do_parameter(3143)
192 smbd[3392]: Global parameter printcap name found in service section!
192 smb: smbd startup succeeded
192 smb: nmbd startup succeeded
192 rc: Starting kheader: succeeded


192 smb: smbd shutdown failed
192 nmbd[3404]: [2005/09/09 08:51:27, 0]
nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:become_local_master_stage2(396)
192 nmbd[3404]: *****
192 nmbd[3404]:
192 nmbd[3404]: Samba name server 192 is now a local master browser for workgroup MDKGROUP on subnet 192.168.1.4
192 nmbd[3404]:
192 nmbd[3404]: *****
192 CROND[4524]: (root) CMD (nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
192 msec: changed mode of /var/log/wtmp from 664 to 640
192 msec: changed group of /var/log/wtmp from utmp to adm
192 msec: changed mode of /var/log/cups/error_log from 644 to 640
192 msec: changed mode of /var/log/Xorg.0.log from 644 to 640
192 msec: changed group of /var/log/Xorg.0.log from root to adm
192 msec: changed mode of /var/log/cups/access_log from 644 to 640
192 smbd[4675]: [2005/09/09 09:04:58, 0] lib/util_sock.c:get_peer_addr(1000)
192 smbd[4675]: getpeername failed. Error was Transport endpoint is not connected
192 smbd[4675]: [2005/09/09 09:04:58, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(430)
192 smbd[4675]: write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Connection reset by peer
192 smbd[4675]: [2005/09/09 09:04:58, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket(455)
192 smbd[4675]: write_socket: Error writing 4 bytes to socket 23: ERRNO = Connection reset by peer
192 smbd[4675]: [2005/09/09 09:04:58, 0] lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(647)
192 smbd[4675]: Error writing 4 bytes to client. -1. (Connection reset by peer)

192 su(pam_unix)[5585]: session opened for user root by arne3(uid=503)
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As a newbie I don't understand enough to pinpoint what the error is.

Please, some one have a clue on how to proceed??

nevermind.. Joe already posted it..