Date: 04 Jan 2005 22:27:17 +0100 From: Bengt Ahlgren <bengta@sics.se> To: Peter Wood <peter@alastria.net> Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GSM/GPRS/PCMCIA modem recommendation? Message-ID: <uh74qhwholm.fsf@P142.sics.se> In-Reply-To: Peter Wood's message of "Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:53:40 %2B0000" References: <20041227162459.152baa00@localhost> <41D013E4.70108@alastria.net>
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Peter Wood <peter@alastria.net> 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
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