From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu May 23 13:58: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy2.mitre.org (smtpproxy2.mitre.org [192.80.55.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3817237B412 for ; Thu, 23 May 2002 13:57:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv2.mitre.org (avsrv2.mitre.org [128.29.154.4]) by smtpproxy2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g4NKvsF22612; Thu, 23 May 2002 16:57:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from MAILHUB2 (mailhub2.mitre.org [129.83.221.18]) by smtpsrv2.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g4NKvqw09600; Thu, 23 May 2002 16:57:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dhcp-105-164.mitre.org (128.29.105.164) by mailhub2.mitre.org with SMTP id 10322009; Thu, 23 May 2002 16:57:38 -0400 Message-ID: <3CED57C3.AED97963@mitre.org> Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 16:57:39 -0400 From: Jason Andresen Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Utz Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: relatively nice cellular WAN connectivity for FreeBSD References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Utz wrote: > > Hi; > > recall that last november some of us got our pants in a bunch over the > fact that sprintpcs was giving away free sierra wireless cards and 6 > months of free connectivity. > > but the cards didnt work with freebsd at the time because they where > multifunction serial cards. > > i dont know if they work today, but i no longer care because i have > switched to verizon wireless and i am getting very good results with a > Kyocera 2235 phone via my serial cable. I have one of those cards (the Aircard 520 IIRC), they don't work anymore, at least the service doesn't seem to be there anymore. If you try to connect the number you dial into just rings and rings. Annoyingly Sprint keeps billing me for the 70 cent per month bill those things had. I think I'm up to like $3 or something. If you try to talk to someone at Sprint to get the bills stopped they all just get confused and tell you they don't know what you're talking about. I'm hoping if I build up a big enough bill someone who knows what's going on will try to call me, or maybe just disconnect me entirely. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message