Verizon Novatel U760 (u3g)

[Mike Tancsa]

Some notes for the archives in case anyone else gets one of these 
evdo USB sticks with FreeBSD (in this case, RELENG_7)


I had to make this small addition to u3g.c in order to get the device 
to work. Note, you still have to do a camcontrol eject pass0


--- u3g.c.orig  2009-08-11 09:25:47.000000000 -0400
+++ u3g.c       2009-08-11 09:26:37.000000000 -0400
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@
         {{ USB_VENDOR_HUAWEI, USB_PRODUCT_HUAWEI_E220 
},                U3GSP_HSPA,     U3GINIT_HUAWEI },
         /* OEM: Novatel */
         {{ USB_VENDOR_NOVATEL, USB_PRODUCT_NOVATEL_CDMA_MODEM 
},        U3GSP_CDMA,     U3GINIT_EJECT },
+       {{ USB_VENDOR_NOVATEL, USB_PRODUCT_NOVATEL_U760 
},               U3GSP_CDMA,     U3GINIT_EJECT },
         {{ USB_VENDOR_NOVATEL, USB_PRODUCT_NOVATEL_ES620 
},             U3GSP_UMTS,     U3GINIT_EJECT },        // XXX
         {{ USB_VENDOR_NOVATEL, USB_PRODUCT_NOVATEL_MC950D 
},            U3GSP_HSUPA,    U3GINIT_EJECT },
         {{ USB_VENDOR_NOVATEL, USB_PRODUCT_NOVATEL_U720 
},              U3GSP_UMTS,     U3GINIT_EJECT },        // XXX

before and after camcontrol eject pass0


full speed, power 500 mA, config 1, Novatel Wireless CDMA(0x6000), 
Novatel Wireless Inc.(0x1410), rev 0.00
full speed, power 500 mA, config 1, Novatel Wireless CDMA(0x5030), 
Novatel Wireless Inc.(0x1410), rev 0.00

Also, not sure if its an "activation" thing or not, but we had to run 
the device once on a windows machine, otherwise we would get 0.0.0.0 
as the IP address assigned.  It might also be peculiar to Verizon, 
but we also needed to add

  deny chap

to our ppp.conf stanza.


evdo2:
  set device /dev/cuaU0.0
  set speed 115200
  #set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \
  #          \"\" AT OK-AT-OK ATZ OK AT\$QCMDR=3 OK  \\dATDT\\T 
TIMEOUT 50 CONNECT"
  set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \
            \"\" AT OK-AT-OK ATZ OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 50 CONNECT"
  set phone "#777"
  # The authname and authkey are meaningless, but you need to have them set.
  # Verizon's servers don't seem to care what you auth as.
  #set authname "notneeded at vzw3g.com"
  #set authkey "vzw"
  disable vjcomp
  disable acfcomp
  disable chap
  disable pap
  deny chap
  disable deflate
  disable deflate24
  disable pred1
  disable protocomp
  disable mppe
  disable ipv6cp
  disable lqr
  disable echo
  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
  disable dns

         ---Mike


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