Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:47:56 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Mikhail Teterin" <mi@corbulon.video-collage.com> Cc: chad@shire.net Subject: RE: Verizon's EVDO and FreeBSD Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNAEHFFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <200502181431.j1IEVvvA091860@corbulon.video-collage.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Mikhail Teterin [mailto:mi@corbulon.video-collage.com] > Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 6:32 AM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; chad@shire.net; > robertk@video-phones-evdo.com > Subject: Re: Verizon's EVDO and FreeBSD > > > > Hi Robert and Mikhail, > > > > Mikhail, make sure the following is in your kernel configuration > > file and recompile the kernel, then post the dmesg output. > This should > > get your card recognized although it probably isn't going to be > > recognized as a modem. But if we see the dmesg output there might be > > enough info to suggest a mod to get it recognized as a modem: > > Wait, I don't a card yet :-) I was just trying to find out, whether I > should bother obtaining one... > Aha. I assumed you had a card already. > Ted, would you take Robert's offer for the benefit of FreeBSD > users (and > that of Verizon)? Assuming, Robert is willing to loan the card > first, of > course :-) > I don't have a laptop, sorry. But, in any case, Mikhail, since your interested in the outcome, that really makes you the absolute best candidate. :-) Why don't you go ahead and borrow Robert's card for a couple weeks. My guess is that it will be recognized out of the box under FreeBSD as an unknown USB serial port - in which case you can attach to it with the USB tty driver and away you go. If it isn't, it should be an extremely trivial matter to post the output of dmesg and such to the USB mailing list, and one of the developers can tell you what source file to modify. We are probably only talking about 1 or 2 lines of code to just add the probe into it. They are going to need a beta tester anyway. If you don't take the card then Robert has the task of getting one of the USB developers interested in doing it, and knowing the proliferation of USB devices on the market, all of them probably have a stack of evauliation gear that is waiting for attention. Since you are personally interested your going to take the time to handle the hardware and you obviously already have a laptop with FreeBSD setup on it. Ted
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