From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 4 21:28:35 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6DE916A4CE for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 21:28:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from brev.sics.se (brev.sics.se [193.10.64.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A7CB43D39 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 21:28:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bengta@P142.sics.se) Received: from P142.sics.se (ferrari.sics.se [193.10.65.63]) by brev.sics.se (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j04LSFSo003090; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:28:15 +0100 env-to () env-from (bengta@P142.sics.se) Received: from P142.sics.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by P142.sics.se (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j04LRInf012139; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:27:18 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from bengta@P142.sics.se) Received: (from bengta@localhost) by P142.sics.se (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j04LRH9h012136; Tue, 4 Jan 2005 22:27:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from bengta) To: Peter Wood References: <20041227162459.152baa00@localhost> <41D013E4.70108@alastria.net> From: Bengt Ahlgren In-Reply-To: Peter Wood's message of "Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:53:40 +0000" Date: 04 Jan 2005 22:27:17 +0100 Message-ID: Lines: 41 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GSM/GPRS/PCMCIA modem recommendation? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 21:28:35 -0000 Peter Wood writes: > > Can anyone recommend me a WORKING under FreeBSD PCMCIA GPRS modem? > > I can't really give you a list, but a warning. > > The Sony GC75 does work under 4.X last time I tried it (two months > ago), but it does not work under 5.3+. I've still trying to get it to > work, but my knowledge of PCMCIA is very limited. > > With 4.11 being the supposed last release of the 4 tree, I wouldn't > recommend getting a GC75 for now. > > If anyone can give me a hand (I sent an email with full details in a > while back) I'd appreciate it. My Sony Ericsson GC75 works under both 4.10 and 5.3, but I think the GC75 is discontinued. A colleague of mine has the newer GC79 (? - the one with WLAN too). We have not managed to get that one working - haven't found the right atdt*99??? command. Back to the GC75. I think that the problem you described in your earlier mail is not due to the card, but some other issue possibly with the ipw driver (for the built-in Intel PRO Wireless 2100), or at least something triggered by the ipw driver. After I _unload_ the ipw driver (v1.6.3), it doesn't recognise any of my PC cards (the other two being an old and dependable Lucent WaveLAN silver card and a 3com 3CCFE574BT Ethernet card). It just says "pccard0: Card has no functions!" and "cbb0: PC Card card activation failed". _Re-loading_ the ipw module makes all cards work again! For the GC75, it says "pccard0: Allocation failed for cfe 32", but the card still works. BTW, I have a Thinkpad X40, run 5.3R and use a kernel without device apic, because that has the unwanted sideffect of making the system loose ad0 after a resume. Bengt