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Date:      Tue, 10 Apr 2001 11:26:09 -0400
From:      Chip Marshall <chip@setzer.chocobo.cx>
To:        Ben Lovett <blovett@bsdguru.com>
Cc:        mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Novatel Merlin Ricochet (PCMCIA) modem under FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20010410112609.A18814@setzer.chocobo.cx>
In-Reply-To: <20010409100144.A906@bsdguru.com>; from blovett@bsdguru.com on Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 10:01:45AM -0700
References:  <20010409100144.A906@bsdguru.com>

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On April 09, 2001, Ben Lovett sent me the following:
> I'm currently attempting to get a Novatel Merlin PCMCIA card working
> under FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE as of around February 21 or so.  Currently I
> have gotten it as far as getting it to dial and then wait for the
> CONNECT message from the remote server, unfortunatly there is another
> problem.  Talking to the modem using AT commands is slow as molasses, so
> I have tried tweaking my ppp.conf as such.
> 
> Is there anyone out there who has successfully gotten this card to work
> under -STABLE, and if so, please help! =)  Attached is a log of the
> output of PPP and my ppp.conf entry.

Okay, the big secret to getting these to work, if I remember
correctly, is to add a 'set mru 576' in your ppp config. I was working
with a Novatel Sage, and it worked for that.

For more infomation on using the Merlin, try
	http://people.freebsd.org/~nsayer/

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