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Date:      Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:22:23 +0100
From:      Nick Hibma <nick@van-laarhoven.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: u3g and ubsa
Message-ID:  <200811251622.24099.nick@van-laarhoven.org>
In-Reply-To: <200811251545.10807.nick@van-laarhoven.org>
References:  <492A62EF.7000803@bsdforen.de> <1227608329.1731.70.camel@localhost> <200811251545.10807.nick@van-laarhoven.org>

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> Please send me as much info as you can:
>
> ppp.conf
> output of dmesg
> things you tried, etc.
>
> I've got a Huawei E220 and any other Huawei card seems to have the same
> symptoms.

I meant to say: I've got a E220 which works, but there are tales about 
another card (Option) that has the same symptoms. It feels like some buffer 
overrun.

>
> Make sure you have the latest and greatest version of u3g.c from current.
>
> One thing you could try is to reduce the MTU in your ppp configuration.
>
> Nick
>
> > On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 09:16 +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> > > I have recently been pointed to the u3g driver and gave it a try,
> > > because UBSA works very unreliable for me.
> > >
> > > - In combination with PF-NAT I get kernel panics under high load.
> > > - I have to hack some buffer sizes in the driver to get the full
> > >   3G speed.
> > > - Often my USB-3G stick is not detected, sometimes I spent several
> > >   minutes plugging it in and out until it is detected.
> > > - It doesn't let me use the card reader in the stick.
> > >
> > > The u3g driver has NONE of these problems. Everything just works
> > > for me.
> > >
> > > So obviously I would like to have u3g in base and chose for
> > > myself or even take support for devices out of ubsa that work
> > > better with u3g.
> >
> > Unfortunately I am no so lucky.
> >
> > After moving to u3g I have no more any Internet mobile connection, my
> > Huawei EC500 card is detected, but PPP failed on pahase of handshake,
> > second port (U0.2) have usual messages with some binaries between text.
> > Looks like something wrong with data delivery between card and port.
>
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