Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 09:02:33 +0200 From: Bengt Ahlgren <bengta@sics.se> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: "tom@diogunix.com" <tom@diogunix.com>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Subject: Re: GPRS/UMTS device for a FreeBSD notebook ? Message-ID: <uh7ipss4qnq.fsf@P142.sics.se> In-Reply-To: <20110530053352.GA2442@tinyCurrent> (Matthias Apitz's message of "Mon, 30 May 2011 07:33:52 %2B0200") References: <201105271905.05137.tom@diogunix.com> <4DDFE606.70809@sentex.net> <201105272027.10437.tom@diogunix.com> <4DDFF66A.5060505@sentex.net> <uh762ot341r.fsf@P142.sics.se> <20110530053352.GA2442@tinyCurrent>
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Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> 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
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