Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:17:13 -0500 (CDT) From: John Utz <john@utzweb.net> To: Ben Hockenhull <benh@jpj.net> Cc: <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Sprint PCS Sierra Wireless Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110051057260.582-100000@jupiter.linuxengine.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10110051040400.21677-100000@blues.jpj.net>
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woohoo! how the hell did i miss this? i am always browsing those pages.... On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Ben Hockenhull wrote: > Sprint PCS is giving away free (I'm sure there's a catch) wireless modems > at http://sprintpcs.i33.com/b2bwwmodem/signup.asp. i already have a sprintpcs account and i was gonna drop 45 bux on a serial cable for my sanyo scp-4000 fone. which is almost half what i paid for the fone....geez, that''s why i held off. > I got mine in the mail just now. It's a CDMA modem of some kind, made by > Sierra Wireless, alleged to run at 14.4 kbps. so, if you go to the sierra wireless page, there is a note that they are EOL'ing these, which makes sense cause the tech is rushing headlong into cdma2000 aka 3G. however, the *tech* is plunging forward in the absence of a *market* :-) so blowing these out makes sense for sierra and sprint. they probably have a pain-share ( as opposed to rev-share :-) ) deal on this. > Naturally, I'm interested in getting it running under FreeBSD. u and me both! > I added it to pccard.conf as a modem, following the lead of the Novatel > Merlin entry well, nice try :-) > and pccardd coredumps when the card is inserted under 4.4-STABLE. yah, i didnt think you could get that lucky. > If anyone has any ideas, I'd be interested in hearing them, but this > message is mostly informational. and i for one appreciate the heck out of it. note that the deal is limited to win9x users only, so i suspect that we have a 'winmodem' problem here. which sort of blows. but at this point, i just gotta' wait for mine to show up...... > Here's the output of a dumpcis: > > Configuration data for card in slot 0 > Tuple #1, code = 0x1 (Common memory descriptor), length = 2 > 000: 00 ff > Common memory device information: > Device number 1, type No device, WPS = OFF > Speed = No speed, Memory block size = reserved, 32 units > Tuple #2, code = 0x6 (Long link to next chain for MFC), length = 11 > 000: 02 00 3e 00 00 00 00 aa 00 00 00 > Function 0: attribute memory, address 0x3e > Function 1: attribute memory, address 0xaa > Tuple #3, code = 0x15 (Version 1 info), length = 31 > 000: 01 01 53 69 65 72 72 61 20 57 69 72 65 6c 65 73 > 010: 73 00 41 43 35 31 30 20 4d 6f 64 65 6d 00 ff > Version = 1.1, Manuf = [Sierra Wireless], card vers = [AC510 Modem] > Tuple #4, code = 0x20 (Manufacturer ID), length = 4 > 000: 92 01 00 03 > PCMCIA ID = 0x192, OEM ID = 0x300 > Tuple #5, code = 0x17 (Attribute memory descriptor), length = 3 > 000: 41 00 ff > Attribute memory device information: > Device number 1, type EEPROM, WPS = OFF > Speed = 250nS, Memory block size = 512b, 1 units > Tuple #6, code = 0xff (Terminator), length = 0 > 1 slots found > > Ben > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > -- John L. Utz III john@utzweb.net Idiocy is the Impulse Function in the Convolution of Life To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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