I got a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen9 here. It comes with a Quectel EM120-R LTE modem (datasheet).
As far as I can tell, there currently isn't a way to use this particular modem with FreeBSD. My idea would have been to setup a small VM running something like OpenWRT and passing the card through to the VM.
The problem I'm facing is that I can't locate the device under FreeBSD at all. It doesn't show up under
I did boot the Ubuntu 21.10 Live image on the machine just to verify that the module is actually working from a hardware perspective. Ubuntu certainly shows the Modem in the Gnome settings panel.
However, neither
Where would I go from here?
As far as I can tell, there currently isn't a way to use this particular modem with FreeBSD. My idea would have been to setup a small VM running something like OpenWRT and passing the card through to the VM.
The problem I'm facing is that I can't locate the device under FreeBSD at all. It doesn't show up under
pciconf
nor under usbconfig
.I did boot the Ubuntu 21.10 Live image on the machine just to verify that the module is actually working from a hardware perspective. Ubuntu certainly shows the Modem in the Gnome settings panel.
However, neither
lsusb
nor lspci
(in Ubuntu) shows the device.Where would I go from here?