From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 30 05:34:06 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 EAFD6106566C for ; Mon, 30 May 2011 05:34:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ms16-1.1blu.de (ms16-1.1blu.de [89.202.0.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A89308FC0A for ; Mon, 30 May 2011 05:34:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [93.104.86.9] (helo=localhost.my.domain) by ms16-1.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QQv6z-0007Cx-Ft; Mon, 30 May 2011 07:33:57 +0200 Received: from localhost.my.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.my.domain (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p4U5Xt1R002465; Mon, 30 May 2011 07:33:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id p4U5XqXn002464; Mon, 30 May 2011 07:33:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 07:33:52 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz To: Bengt Ahlgren Message-ID: <20110530053352.GA2442@tinyCurrent> References: <201105271905.05137.tom@diogunix.com> <4DDFE606.70809@sentex.net> <201105272027.10437.tom@diogunix.com> <4DDFF66A.5060505@sentex.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Originating-IP: 93.104.86.9 Cc: "tom@diogunix.com" , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: GPRS/UMTS device for a FreeBSD notebook ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 05:34:07 -0000 El día Sunday, May 29, 2011 a las 05:44:00PM +0200, Bengt Ahlgren escribió: > I use the uhso driver with an Option ICON 7.2 (needed firmware update). > It works very well indeed and much better than the ubsa driver I used > before. With uhso you get a real network interface and thus don't need > to fiddle around with ppp. You still get some serial ports with which > you can do "at" commands to control the modem if you want to do that > manually. Otherwise the uhsoctl program takes care of all that for you. > At least on my laptop (Thinkpad X40), ppp over serial port didn't go > faster than 300kbit/sec or so. With uhso I get much more. This and the man page uhso(4) sound very interesting... Are these Option cards USB devices? Do you have a pointer where to get one of this sticks in Europe? Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e - w http://www.unixarea.de/