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_at_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. =================Received on Wed Jun 11 2003 - 13:44:25 UTC
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