From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 25 17:39:30 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76CBE1065673 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:39:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aimass@yabarana.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 473EC8FC16 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:39:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iaeo4 with SMTP id o4so2138393iae.13 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:39:29 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.161.70 with SMTP id s6mr1904052icx.48.1327513169605; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:39:29 -0800 (PST) Sender: aimass@yabarana.com Received: by 10.231.77.5 with HTTP; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:39:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:39:29 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 8_EnxLLLGEMqAghmUpke3tlDr8A Message-ID: From: Alejandro Imass To: Odhiambo Washington X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkKtNQ1aXMM+/gwxWDmH9Q7ikxx4iYDO2CEZeNvWrxqtBjYwfddH1W19CejSES+1S/nJVcZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:39:30 -0000 On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Odhiambo Washington w= rote: > [...] > You know, sometimes all this process is what makes people shy off of *BSD= . I am a diehard lover of FreeBSD, but the few times I have installed Linux= on my laptop, this whole process was a breeze... well, not quite, but not = as difficult as it is in FreeBSD. Luckily, I use WiFi more than I use 3G, s= o it's never quite bothered me. Even now, I just want to see how easy it ca= n be on PC-BSD/FreeBSD, with a GUI to boot, if there is, but I do not feel = it is such a big necessity for me, because I have D-Link DIR-825 which can = use this modem on it's USB port and allow me to use 3G. > It used to be like that in Linux as well. It's only until recently that the netowrk manager app supports 3g modems. The problem is when these graphical apps fail you have virtually no way to see what's going on, just plug and pray. If you get the tty, using Wvdial is actuall much easier than any other dialing/ppp tool I've ever used. So even on Linuxes with NM applet and 3g modem support I would use Wvdial, and on FBSD especially! wvdial is much more robust than the nm apps, IMHO. --=20 Alejandro Imass