From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 27 19:08:05 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94FAE1065673 for ; Fri, 27 May 2011 19:08:05 +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 50F2C8FC14 for ; Fri, 27 May 2011 19:08:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp2.sentex.ca (smtp2c.sentex.ca [64.7.153.30]) by smarthost1.sentex.ca (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p4RJ7lQf002843 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 27 May 2011 15:07:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from pyroxene.sentex.ca ([IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:3::18]) by smtp2.sentex.ca (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p4RJ7lVU030302; Fri, 27 May 2011 15:07:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from [192.168.43.26] (saphire3.sentex.ca [192.168.43.26]) by pyroxene.sentex.ca (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p4RJ7l7o096794; Fri, 27 May 2011 15:07:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-ID: <4DDFF66A.5060505@sentex.net> Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 15:07:22 -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: "tom@diogunix.com" References: <201105271905.05137.tom@diogunix.com> <4DDFE606.70809@sentex.net> <201105272027.10437.tom@diogunix.com> In-Reply-To: <201105272027.10437.tom@diogunix.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at smtp2.sentex.ca X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 64.7.153.18 Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GPRS/UMTS device for a FreeBSD notebook ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 19:08:05 -0000 On 5/27/2011 2:27 PM, tom@diogunix.com wrote: > > But first: How can I check whether or not a certain product / model will be > supported by RELENG 8 ? Is there a list of devices anywhere hidden in RELENG > 8 ? And if so, where can I find it ? take a look at the man page for u3g. You can also look in the source code. Often, to support slightly newer chipsets, you just need to add the device IDs e.g. see /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/serial/u3g.c There are quite a few there. Also, some devices use a different driver, especially Option can make use of the uhso driver. I dont have an experience with that. ---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/