From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Dec 10 16:20:13 2000 From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 10 16:20:11 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from pynchon.icsi.berkeley.edu (unknown [199.106.118.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECA2637B400 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 16:20:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from karp@localhost) by pynchon.icsi.berkeley.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eBB0HpT08431 for mobile@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 16:17:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from karp) Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 16:17:51 -0800 (PST) From: Brad Karp Message-Id: <200012110017.eBB0HpT08431@pynchon.icsi.berkeley.edu> To: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Ricochet 128K Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The *existing* GS radios are external boxes with a dual USB/serial port for host connectivity. I believe Ben is talking about the *new*, as-yet-unreleased PC-Card Ricochet radios. Sierra Wireless and Novatel Wireless have announced they will ship these in 1Q01, if I recall correctly. Moreover, the external Ricochet 128K radios work reasonably well with USB, after some patches I submitted for umodem.c's former abuse of the tty layer buffering model. Alas, I don't know how the new PC-Card radios will appear (as plain-jane modems or devices requiring a custom driver). -Brad, bkarp@icsi.berkeley.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message