[H-GEN] Questions about the Wireless Broadband Modems and linux compatibility.

[Neville C. Dempsey]

Hi Edwin,

OK
    ATDT *90#
    CONNECT 7200000

The USB seems to be the way to go for linux too.... maybe...

I'll try plugging a USB dongle in at a retail outlet.

I'm hoping that ALL usb modem are simply a high speed serial connections
with a HAYES compatible command set.  (Read: win modems have made me
nervous)
The BSD kernel Huawei E220 seems to need to be told (modified) to know
Huawei E220 is a serial device.  On the scale of things, if a tiny hack
is all that Linux needs I'll be happy.

Cheers
N



On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 20:12 +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 06:10:14PM +1000, Neville C. Dempsey wrote:
> > In short: Which providers modem dongle/card works with Linux?
> 
> Not Linux, but I got the Huawei E220 G3 USB modem working with
> FreeBSD this weekend. Patches are available from
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=usb/118686 and more
> details are available from http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/html/00192.html.
> You get this one with Three. Since the same USB stack is used in
> OpenBSD and NetBSD, the results will be the same (to be honest, the
> stack came from NetBSD).
> 
> Edwin


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