From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 11 15:44:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D43DA37B401; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:44:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genius.tao.org.uk (genius.tao.org.uk [212.135.162.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 201E943F75; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:44:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@genius.tao.org.uk) Received: by genius.tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id DDD6E451A; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:43:38 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 23:43:38 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org Message-ID: <20030611224338.GA10822@genius.tao.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Josef Karthauser , Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org, dyeske@yahoo.com, current@freebsd.org, mobile@freebsd.org References: <4900258.1055361908012.JavaMail.nobody@rowlf.psp.pas.earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4900258.1055361908012.JavaMail.nobody@rowlf.psp.pas.earthlink.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: dyeske@yahoo.com cc: current@freebsd.org cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LG 5350 cell phone X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 22:44:26 -0000 On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:05:00PM -0500, Sean Welch wrote: > I have this phone myself. I have two adapters for it -- one is > a serial cable the other a "true" (as in no serial to usb > conversion box in the middle) usb cable. > > The phone works great under FreeBSD on the serial cable (normal > Hayes modem type at commands work fine), but no version of > FreeBSD has worked with the usb cable so far. I tried 4.8, > 5.0-RELEASE, and a few versions of 5.x-CURRENT. The phone is > quite usable from my iBook so the cable isn't the issue (the > iBook reports it as a Qualcomm -- which is what the sticker > says too). I see the message you do, but when I try to use > umodem with it the phone continuously "reboots" itself until > detached. > > I tried something along the lines of what you did to usbdevs > a while back but didn't get any improvement. > > The connection is appreciably faster over the usb port with > the "true" cable when compared to the serial cable; it would > be very nice to use it this way on FreeBSD... > > Sean Maybe the phone doesn't identify itself as a usb modem class, instead relying on a vendor driver. An easy project for someone would be to write a general usb querying tool for displaying the classes, etc that a usb device supports. I've got code kicking around, mostly from Nick Hibma, but I never got around to finishing it off. Joe -- Josef Karthauser (joe@tao.org.uk) http://www.josef-k.net/ FreeBSD (cvs meister, admin and hacker) http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/ Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ ================ An eclectic mix of fact and theory. =================