From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 30 07:01:41 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A9D51065677 for ; Mon, 30 May 2011 07:01:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bengta@P142.sics.se) Received: from sink.sics.se (sink.sics.se [193.10.64.88]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9465C8FC13 for ; Mon, 30 May 2011 07:01:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from P142.sics.se (h247n5-u-d1.ias.bredband.telia.com [78.72.169.247]) by sink.sics.se (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p4U71T19004809 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 30 May 2011 09:01:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from bengta@P142.sics.se) Received: from P142.sics.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by P142.sics.se (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p4U72ZWF002054; Mon, 30 May 2011 09:02:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from bengta@P142.sics.se) Received: (from bengta@localhost) by P142.sics.se (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p4U72Xjp002053; Mon, 30 May 2011 09:02:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from bengta@P142.sics.se) From: Bengt Ahlgren To: Matthias Apitz In-Reply-To: <20110530053352.GA2442@tinyCurrent> (Matthias Apitz's message of "Mon, 30 May 2011 07:33:52 +0200") References: <201105271905.05137.tom@diogunix.com> <4DDFE606.70809@sentex.net> <201105272027.10437.tom@diogunix.com> <4DDFF66A.5060505@sentex.net> <20110530053352.GA2442@tinyCurrent> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 09:02:33 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "tom@diogunix.com" , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: GPRS/UMTS device for a FreeBSD notebook ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 07:01:41 -0000 Matthias Apitz writes: > El d=EDa Sunday, May 29, 2011 a las 05:44:00PM +0200, Bengt Ahlgren escri= bi=F3: > >> I use the uhso driver with an Option ICON 7.2 (needed firmware update). >> It works very well indeed and much better than the ubsa driver I used >> before. With uhso you get a real network interface and thus don't need >> to fiddle around with ppp. You still get some serial ports with which >> you can do "at" commands to control the modem if you want to do that >> manually. Otherwise the uhsoctl program takes care of all that for you. >> At least on my laptop (Thinkpad X40), ppp over serial port didn't go >> faster than 300kbit/sec or so. With uhso I get much more. > > This and the man page uhso(4) sound very interesting... Are these Option > cards USB devices? Do you have a pointer where to get one of this sticks > in Europe? Thanks Mine is USB - I think they have cardbus variants too, but as far as I understand, they are still internally USB-based. I think I got mine here: http://www.dustin.se/ - they at least have them now. See http://www.dustin.se/lp_21255_8518.aspx - klick the small UK flag at the top to switch to English. http://www.option.com/ might also give you some clues. Bengt