On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 09:23, Ivan Frosty <ivanfro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The FreeBSD u3g driver ¶¶ > > > Introduction ¶¶ > This driver supports 3G (UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, HSPA) cards that provide > access to one or more serial ports through a USB interface, providing > PPP and AT command channels simultaneously. Some devices provide > access to multiple pairs of channels for integrated GPS', or other > access methods (Option HSO driver). > > Transfer speeds should be above 30k on a good UMTS connection and a > fast server: > > % curl -o /dev/null ftp://ftp.nl.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ls-lR.gz > % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time > Current > Dload Upload Total Spent Left > Speed > 12 19.9M 12 2486k 0 0 40203 0 0:08:39 0:01:03 0:07:36 > 43921 > Some (older) devices (from Sierra for example) provide 1 serial port > through a normal serial port or the normal serial USB drivers. They > usually support the ETSI / 3GPP 27.010 3GPPMultiplexProtocol, making > it possible to open a AT command channel and a PPP connection channel > simultaneously. A basic implementation which works on an Option > Globetrotter GPRS card is available. Contact me for details. > > Verified to work ¶¶ > See the man page. > > Installation instructions ¶¶ > The driver is available in both FreeBSD 7 and FreeBSD 8. The one in > FreeBSD 8 and up was written by Hans Petter Selasky. Consult > freebsd-usb@… for more information and bug reports. > > The driver from FreeBSD 7 should be usable on FreeBSD 6, without too > many changes. You will need to patch ucom.c though with the attached > patch (see below). > > Tricks ¶¶ > To start your connection automatically use something like the > following snippet in your devd.conf: > > attach 100 { > device-name "ucom[0-9]+"; > match "vendor" "0x12d1"; > match "product" "0x1003"; > action "/usr/sbin/ppp -ddial kpn"; > }; > Some people have been able to get their device to successfully switch > from driver mode to modem mode using usb_modeswitch. You can compile > it on !FreeBSD with > > cc -L /usr/local/lib -I/usr/local/include -lusb -o usb_modeswitch > usb_modeswitch.c > if you have libusb installed. The mass storage devices the devices > present should be available through ugen. Note that umass must not be > present in your kernel nor as a module (or it should be made to ignore > these devices). > > To see signal strength for example while online: > > Start ppp (See also PPPFor3GModems). > > > prolly that could help......... > > I read this, but one thing I am sure about is that those details need to be changed to reflect what I have on my system. But I'm trying to see if there is an easier way out. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. Please consider the environment before printing this email. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
