From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 10 14:17:17 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 548DD1065670 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 14:17:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost1.sentex.ca (smarthost1-6.sentex.ca [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:1::12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1514D8FC0C for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 14:17:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.43.26] (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by smarthost1.sentex.ca (8.14.5/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q4AEGopo099283; Thu, 10 May 2012 10:16:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-ID: <4FABCDCF.2080203@sentex.net> Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 10:16:47 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa Organization: Sentex Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Braniss References: <4FAA86B0.4070202@sentex.net> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.72 on 64.7.153.18 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCEngines alix.6 with dual SIM X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 14:17:17 -0000 On 5/10/2012 2:00 AM, Daniel Braniss wrote: > hi all, > I removed the line I added to urg.c, then kldloaded u3g, and voila: > ugen0.2: at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON > > Mike, which minipci cards do you recomend? > thanks all, > danny > ps: now the fun begins - coding Hi, The Sierra ones seem to work ok, but I have used Ovation units in the past as well. I dont know much behind the technology, but I get the sense that some cards will work better with some carriers than others. So if your local carrier / telco sells Ovation units, get those. If they sell Sierra, get those. Obviously, supported frequency is a big thing, but generally they just work. The nice thing about the Sierra ones is they provide a bit more diagnostic info. Signal strength etc. One small challenge I often run into is that the manufactures will make new versions of the devices and their USB ids will change. Even though the model# is the same, they present differently. Oh, and serial ports too. Some units will be cuaU0.0 others might be cuaU0.3. There doesnt seem to be any rhyme or reason sometimes.... ---Mike -- ------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/