From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 25 22:30:26 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD01E106566C for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:30:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DF0F8FC13 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:30:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (bell.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.40]) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A8C5C4A for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:42:58 +1000 (EST) Received: from laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 11C885C21 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:42:58 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4F208189.3010900@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:26:17 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111109 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 and 3G Modems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:30:26 -0000 On 01/26/12 03:39, Alejandro Imass wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > [...] > >> 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, so it's never quite bothered me. Even now, I just want to see how easy it can 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. > Network manager's a colossal screw up if you ask me- I had no end of trouble with it when I used linux. One very good reason to use FreeBSD when nm is inextricably linked to the core of linux (how is a gui app possibly allowed to do that, I'll never know). Sorry; and now back to your regular thread...