From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 5 23:15:39 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DCD016A40A for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 23:15:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from volker@vwsoft.com) Received: from frontmail.ipactive.de (frontmail.maindns.de [85.214.95.103]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5206B13C49D for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 23:15:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from volker@vwsoft.com) Received: from mail.vtec.ipme.de (Q7d99.q.ppp-pool.de [89.53.125.153]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by frontmail.ipactive.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0468128831; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 23:57:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.18.3] (unknown [192.168.18.3]) by mail.vtec.ipme.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 786EC2E568; Mon, 5 Feb 2007 23:57:06 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <45C7B643.2030904@vwsoft.com> Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:57:07 +0100 From: Volker User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070119) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-VWSoft-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: volker@vwsoft.com X-ipactive-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ipactive-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ipactive-MailScanner-From: volker@vwsoft.com Cc: lists@jnielsen.net Subject: Re: Verizon V620 wireless card 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: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:15:39 -0000 > ucom0: Novatel Wireless Inc. Novatel Wireless Merlin CDMA, rev 1.10/0.00, > addr 2 > ucom0: ubsa_request: STALLED > ucom0: ubsa_request: STALLED > ... > (lots more STALLED messages) John, just added myself to mobile@ (thanks for cross-posting this to usb@ so I got notice of this discussion). If you're using the V620 (or any other (W-)CDMA) card with ppp, you should make sure you're using: set cd 30! (note the exclamation mark at the end) I've seen _a lot_ of problem reports (not just with FreeBSD) where ppp does not recognize a connection loss when using W-CDMA cards. The exclamation mark forces ppp into waiting for a carrier and following that CD signal. I suspect your problems might come from a bad signal. I don't know much about the V620 (just that it's only used in nothern america) but if it's a high-speed card (transfer rate > 56k, 3G mode?) you should force your card into GPRS or 3G mode. By default W-CDMA cards are trying to auto detect the best signal reception and that might cause often signal loss due to band change. If you know how to force the card into one or the other mode, please use that in ppp's init string. If you don't know it, you may try the commands for the U630 (I guess both cards are using the same command set). You may find a bit info about the U630 at: http://bsd.vwsoft.com/3g/merlin_u630.html Please note the U630 is serial-over-PCMCIA and not usb so the hardware is not the same. I thought the V620 is also serial-over-PCMCIA but it seems you proved me wrong. ;) Greetings, Volker