From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 14 12:52:50 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B160816A4CE for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:52:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailin.rapidreporting.com (mailin.rapidreporting.com [12.147.150.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1871543D39 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:52:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spamite@ev1.net) Received: (qmail 12347 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2005 07:52:48 -0500 Received: from deathlap.opensourcespecialists.com (HELO deathlap) (68.91.41.131) by mailin.rapidreporting.com with RC4-MD5 encrypted SMTP; 14 Apr 2005 07:52:48 -0500 From: Kevin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 07:52:49 -0500 Message-Id: <1113483169.5267.8.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Audiovox PC5220 EVDO in FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:52:50 -0000 I had noticed while googling previously that some people on this list had been asking about using the Audiovox PC5220 CDMA EVDO PC Card in FreeBSD(commonly used in the US by Verizon, and I think Vodaphone uses the GSM version in Europe.) Here's what I know about the card, and my experience with it under FreeBSD, as well as GNU/Linux and WinXP, so that others might benefit from the information. The card seems to be a combination of a Lucent/Agere USB OHCI HCD, and a device that acts to the system like a REALLY fast modem. Under GNU/Linux, the device gets two serial ports, but only the first one is usable. When modprobing the usbserial driver in Linux to make it work, I have to tell the driver the product/vendor hex to bind to. The Product ID is 0x0112, Vendor ID is 0x0f3d. Whenever I insert the card into my notebook booted in FreeBSD, it immediately hardlocks the box (only powering it off works.) The notebook is a Toshiba Satellite P4 3.0ghz. It seems to have an Intel ICH5 chipset, and uses UHCI and EHCI usb interfaces. I'm slightly thinking there's a driver contention issue in FreeBSD among those interfaces and the OHCI that is on the PC5220 card. Would anyone happen to have any ideas about where I should go next to try to make this card function in FreeBSD? Its the only thing stopping me from switching my notebook to FreeBSD from Debian GNU/Linux.