From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 29 16:11:58 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 E2CA4106564A for ; Sun, 29 May 2011 16:11:58 +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 620DE8FC1E for ; Sun, 29 May 2011 16:11:57 +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 p4TFgtk3001710 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 29 May 2011 17:42:56 +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 p4TFi0GB002286; Sun, 29 May 2011 17:44:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from bengta@P142.sics.se) Received: (from bengta@localhost) by P142.sics.se (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p4TFi0NV002285; Sun, 29 May 2011 17:44:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from bengta@P142.sics.se) From: Bengt Ahlgren To: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <4DDFF66A.5060505@sentex.net> (Mike Tancsa's message of "Fri, 27 May 2011 15:07:22 -0400") References: <201105271905.05137.tom@diogunix.com> <4DDFE606.70809@sentex.net> <201105272027.10437.tom@diogunix.com> <4DDFF66A.5060505@sentex.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 17:44:00 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "tom@diogunix.com" , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org 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: Sun, 29 May 2011 16:11:59 -0000 Mike Tancsa writes: > On 5/27/2011 2:27 PM, tom@diogunix.com wrote: >> >> But first: How can I check whether or not a certain product / model will be >> supported by RELENG 8 ? Is there a list of devices anywhere hidden in RELENG >> 8 ? And if so, where can I find it ? > > > take a look at the man page for u3g. You can also look in the source > code. Often, to support slightly newer chipsets, you just need to add > the device IDs > > e.g. see > > /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/serial/u3g.c > > There are quite a few there. Also, some devices use a different driver, > especially Option can make use of the uhso driver. I dont have an > experience with that. 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. Bengt