I had noticed while googling previously that some people on this list had been asking about using the Audiovox PC5220 CDMA EVDO PC Card in FreeBSD(commonly used in the US by Verizon, and I think Vodaphone uses the GSM version in Europe.) Here's what I know about the card, and my experience with it under FreeBSD, as well as GNU/Linux and WinXP, so that others might benefit from the information. The card seems to be a combination of a Lucent/Agere USB OHCI HCD, and a device that acts to the system like a REALLY fast modem. Under GNU/Linux, the device gets two serial ports, but only the first one is usable. When modprobing the usbserial driver in Linux to make it work, I have to tell the driver the product/vendor hex to bind to. The Product ID is 0x0112, Vendor ID is 0x0f3d. Whenever I insert the card into my notebook booted in FreeBSD, it immediately hardlocks the box (only powering it off works.) The notebook is a Toshiba Satellite P4 3.0ghz. It seems to have an Intel ICH5 chipset, and uses UHCI and EHCI usb interfaces. I'm slightly thinking there's a driver contention issue in FreeBSD among those interfaces and the OHCI that is on the PC5220 card. Would anyone happen to have any ideas about where I should go next to try to make this card function in FreeBSD? Its the only thing stopping me from switching my notebook to FreeBSD from Debian GNU/Linux.
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