Bug#585567: ITP: gobi-loader -- Firmware loader for Qualcomm Gobi USB chipsets.

[Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>]

Mark Hymers <mhy@debian.org> writes:

> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Mark Hymers <mhy@debian.org>
>
> * Package name    : gobi-loader
>   Version         : 0.6
>   Upstream Author : Matthew Garrett / RedHat <mjg@redhat.com>
> * URL             : http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/gobi_loader/
> * License         : GPL 2
>   Programming Lang: C
>   Description     : Firmware loader for Qualcomm Gobi USB chipsets.
>
>  gobi-loader is a firmware loader for Qualcomm Gobi USB
>  chipsets. These devices appear in an uninitialised state when power
>  is applied and require firmware to be loaded before they can be used
>  as modems. gobi-loader adds a udev rule that will trigger loading of
>  the firmware and make the modem usable.

This package would be useful, I have a Lenovo X201 with this chipset.

However, is the program useful without non-free firmware?  If not,
perhaps it belongs in contrib rather than main?

/Simon