GPRS/UMTS device for a FreeBSD notebook ?

Mon May 30 05:34:07 UTC 2011

El día Sunday, May 29, 2011 a las 05:44:00PM +0200, Bengt Ahlgren escribió:

> I use the uhso driver with an Option ICON 7.2 (needed firmware update).
> It works very well indeed and much better than the ubsa driver I used
> before.  With uhso you get a real network interface and thus don't need
> to fiddle around with ppp.  You still get some serial ports with which
> you can do "at" commands to control the modem if you want to do that
> manually.  Otherwise the uhsoctl program takes care of all that for you.
> At least on my laptop (Thinkpad X40), ppp over serial port didn't go
> faster than 300kbit/sec or so.  With uhso I get much more.

This and the man page uhso(4) sound very interesting... Are these Option
cards USB devices? Do you have a pointer where to get one of this sticks
in Europe? Thanks

	matthias

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