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Here's a list of cards supported by ModemManager which works in conjunction with NetworkManager on Linux:

  https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Software/ModemManager/SupportedDevices/

It doesn't explicitly call out 4G support so you will have to work backwards.

fyi: some laptop firmware, such as thinkpads, have a whitelist of supported WWAN cards. If you can't find a suitable internal card you can use a USB dongle without restriction.

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Thank you. Much appreciated.

I've got a ThinkPad X201 with a built in Gobi 3G card already. Just used to 4g speeds :)

Looks like some people are binary editing the Lenovo supplied BIOS to hack in the PCI ID of their WWAN cards.

Your X201 has decent support in the free coreboot BIOS, so if you fancy a weekend project you can ditch the WWAN whitelist altogether:

http://www.coreboot.org/Board:lenovo/x201

Yeah I did this when I had a T61 so I could enable SATA2.

Thanks for the heads up with CoreBoot

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