Verizon V620 wireless card

John Nielsen lists at jnielsen.net
Mon Feb 5 05:17:46 UTC 2007


I just want to report that I got this card working on my laptop running 
6-STABLE. (This should be a reply to this message but I couldn't find it 
locally):
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2006-December/009404.html

Unlike the OP, the usb hub was recognized on my machine and gave me a ugen0 
device associated with the CDMA modem. So all I had to do was get the modem 
to attach to ucom or similar.

After a couple false starts I got a cue from this message:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2005-June/012512.html

The attached patch lets the card attach as a ubsa device. I'm also attaching 
the ppp.conf file I hacked up (it's been a while since I've made any ppp 
chat scripts so I'm sure it could be done more elegantly).

Here are the relevant bits of dmesg with the card inserted:

cbb0: <TI1520 PCI-CardBus Bridge> at device 11.0 on pci0
cardbus0: <CardBus bus> on cbb0
pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0
cbb1: <TI1520 PCI-CardBus Bridge> at device 11.1 on pci0
cardbus1: <CardBus bus> on cbb1
pccard1: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb1
...
cardbus0: CIS pointer is 0!
cardbus0: Resource not specified in CIS: id=10, size=1000
ohci3: <NEC uPD 9210 USB controller> mem 0x88001000-0x88001fff irq 9 at 
device 0.1 on cardbus0
ohci3: [GIANT-LOCKED]
usb4: OHCI version 1.0
usb4: <NEC uPD 9210 USB controller> on ohci3
usb4: USB revision 1.0
uhub4: NEC OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub4: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ucom0: Novatel Wireless Inc. Novatel Wireless Merlin CDMA, rev 1.10/0.00, 
addr 2
ucom0: ubsa_request: STALLED
ucom0: ubsa_request: STALLED
...
(lots more STALLED messages)

Despite the error messages it connects and works just fine, with performance 
similar to what I see in Windows (which isn't great in this area).

evs: Did you take ohci out of your kernel by any chance?

I'm open to feedback on what the STALLED messages might mean and how to get 
rid of them.

JN
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#################################################################
# PPP  Sample Configuration File
# Originally written by Toshiharu OHNO
# Simplified 5/14/1999 by wself at cdrom.com
#
# See /usr/share/examples/ppp/ for some examples
#
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/ppp/ppp.conf,v 1.10 2004/11/19 17:12:56 obrien Exp $
#################################################################

default:
 set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command
 ident user-ppp VERSION (built COMPILATIONDATE)

 # Ensure that "device" references the correct serial port
 # for your modem. (cuad0 = COM1, cuad1 = COM2)
 #
 set device /dev/cuaU0

# set speed 115200
 set speed 230400
 set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \
           \"\" AT OK-AT-OK ATE1Q0 OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT"
 set timeout 180			# 3 minute idle timer (the default)
 enable dns				# request DNS info (for resolv.conf)

papchap:
 #
 # edit the next three lines and replace the items in caps with
 # the values which have been assigned by your ISP.
 #

 set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \
           \"\" AT OK-AT-OK ATDT#777\\T TIMEOUT 40 CONNECT"
 set phone #777
 set login
 set authname
 set authkey
 accept PAP
# set authname USERNAME
# set authkey PASSWORD

 set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0
 add default HISADDR			# Add a (sticky) default route


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