From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 15 15:29:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 BCEB616A47A for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:29:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32D0143D46 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:29:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id x66so331990pye for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:29:15 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=XyzsmaJO5cbFJLXdVUSj47SsegfS6P6yK9thXIaN76Qbn2w27s1aiNQ60IJnn0I1+aA0hzVm3MhpIHYiEV03W6KtZ9tSoioEL3Hw2CCHDbIC5ibpi69cqFCtFVfZYc7kU/n22kfzIi+dqASFT5+4jplTFwUaUN0RigNQtxRmSUY= Received: by 10.35.99.14 with SMTP id b14mr3121381pym; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:23:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.76.20 with HTTP; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:23:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <57d710000606150823g22f92c00kf98eb3945e03b1ae@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:23:02 -0700 From: "pete wright" To: YTResearch In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Verizon Wireless PC5740 on FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:29:16 -0000 On 6/14/06, YTResearch wrote: > Has anyone been successful with using Verizon Wireless on FreeBSD. I > have read where the PC5740 card has been successfully used on Linux > claiming 160mbps with a ohci-hcd module. If that's true, I was > thinking this should be possible on FreeBSD. I have a mix of Darwin > and FreeBSD and it seems more likely that FreeBSD would be the better > bet since the linux module might run as is. Hate to put the money out > and find out differently. Has anyone tried this? > I have a bit of experience running these cards on OSX (10.4) and was impressed. The basic connection procedure (via the Verizon GUI) is to load the driver to the card, bring up a ppp interface which authenticates with the Verizon service (I assume that this a basic ppp authentication script). IP, routing, dns is doled out to the host after auth. i would suspect that authentication is tied to a uniq ID based on the card (probably not the MAC address from what I could tell though). You may need a compatible device to unlock the card intitally (Mac or NT). I will be getting some more of these in soon and hopefully wil have time to test them out on my 6.1 laptop.... -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group