From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Apr 10 8:26:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from hindenburg.eboai.org (hindenburg.eboai.org [206.183.134.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 747DD37B423 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 08:26:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chip@chocobo.cx) Received: by hindenburg.eboai.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6A7835E2D8; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 11:26:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 11:26:09 -0400 From: Chip Marshall To: Ben Lovett Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Novatel Merlin Ricochet (PCMCIA) modem under FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20010410112609.A18814@setzer.chocobo.cx> Reply-To: chip@chocobo.cx References: <20010409100144.A906@bsdguru.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.9i In-Reply-To: <20010409100144.A906@bsdguru.com>; from blovett@bsdguru.com on Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 10:01:45AM -0700 X-URL: http://www.chocobo.cx/chip/ X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On April 09, 2001, Ben Lovett sent me the following: > I'm currently attempting to get a Novatel Merlin PCMCIA card working > under FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE as of around February 21 or so. Currently I > have gotten it as far as getting it to dial and then wait for the > CONNECT message from the remote server, unfortunatly there is another > problem. Talking to the modem using AT commands is slow as molasses, so > I have tried tweaking my ppp.conf as such. > > Is there anyone out there who has successfully gotten this card to work > under -STABLE, and if so, please help! =) Attached is a log of the > output of PPP and my ppp.conf entry. Okay, the big secret to getting these to work, if I remember correctly, is to add a 'set mru 576' in your ppp config. I was working with a Novatel Sage, and it worked for that. For more infomation on using the Merlin, try http://people.freebsd.org/~nsayer/ -- Chip Marshall http://www.chocobo.cx/chip/ Finger for PGP GCM/CS d+(-) s+:++ a19>? C++ UB++++$ P+++$ L- E--- W++ N+@ o K- w O M+ V-- PS PE Y? PGP++ t+@ 5 X R>+ tv+() b++>+++ DI++++ D(-) G++ e>++ h!>++ r-- y- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message