Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 19:52:36 -0700 (PDT) From: David Yeske <dyeske@yahoo.com> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org>, Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org Cc: mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: LG 5350 cell phone Message-ID: <20030617025236.5589.qmail@web13508.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030611224338.GA10822@genius.tao.org.uk>
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Should this get a new vendor entry in usbdevs? --- Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:05:00PM -0500, Sean Welch wrote: > > I have this phone myself. I have two adapters for it -- one is > > a serial cable the other a "true" (as in no serial to usb > > conversion box in the middle) usb cable. > > > > The phone works great under FreeBSD on the serial cable (normal > > Hayes modem type at commands work fine), but no version of > > FreeBSD has worked with the usb cable so far. I tried 4.8, > > 5.0-RELEASE, and a few versions of 5.x-CURRENT. The phone is > > quite usable from my iBook so the cable isn't the issue (the > > iBook reports it as a Qualcomm -- which is what the sticker > > says too). I see the message you do, but when I try to use > > umodem with it the phone continuously "reboots" itself until > > detached. > > > > I tried something along the lines of what you did to usbdevs > > a while back but didn't get any improvement. > > > > The connection is appreciably faster over the usb port with > > the "true" cable when compared to the serial cable; it would > > be very nice to use it this way on FreeBSD... > > > > Sean > > Maybe the phone doesn't identify itself as a usb modem class, instead > relying on a vendor driver. > > An easy project for someone would be to write a general usb querying > tool for displaying the classes, etc that a usb device supports. > I've got code kicking around, mostly from Nick Hibma, but I never got > around to finishing it off. > > Joe > -- > Josef Karthauser (joe@tao.org.uk) http://www.josef-k.net/ > FreeBSD (cvs meister, admin and hacker) http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/ > Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ > ================ An eclectic mix of fact and theory. ================= __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
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