Re: Request for testers: Option 3G cards, also Sierra, Huawei and Novatel

> At 04:44 PM 10/9/2008, Nick Hibma wrote:
> >Just now I have committed a driver for Option and Huawei cards
> > previously supported by the ubsa driver. More information is in the
> > commit message.
> >
> >I am looking for people who would be able to provide more information
> > after testing with the 3G cards branded by:
>
> Hi,
>          I gave it a try on the Sierra USB card and it seems to work
> really well on RELENG_7! There is however also a mini-pci express
> version of the Sierra card, the MC8775.  Do you have plans to add
> support for it ?  I am not sure how the unit is even supposed to show
> up as I dont see it in the dmesg, but I do see that it shows some
> sort of umass device
>
> # usbdevs
> addr 1: OHCI root hub, AMD
>   addr 2: USB MMC Storage, Sierra Wireless
> addr 1: EHCI root hub, AMD

If you could run usbdevs -v and then jot down the IDs you can add those to 
the top of u3g.c. You'll have to add a quirk like for other sierra devices 
that show up as mass storage and need to be kicked into modem mode.

It pretends to be a mass storage device (with drivers on it) and after 
installation switches to modem mode.

Or that's my guess.

Nick

> dmesg snippet
> ...
> isa_probe_children: probing PnP devices
> umass0: <Sierra Wireless USB MMC Storage, class 0/0, rev 1.10/0.00,
> addr 2> on uhub0
> umass0:0:0:-1: Attached to scbus0
> Device configuration finished.
> procfs registered
> Timecounter "TSC" frequency 498053687 Hz quality 800
> Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
> crypto: <crypto device>
> vlan: initialized, using hash tables with chaining
> IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
> pflog0: bpf attached
> lo0: bpf attached
> ata0-master: pio=PIO4 wdma=WDMA2 udma=UNSUPPORTED cable=40 wire
> ad0: setting PIO4 on CS5536 chip
> ad0: 1953MB <SanDisk SDCFH2-002G HDX 4.32> at ata0-master PIO4
> ad0: 4001760 sectors [3970C/16H/63S] 4 sectors/interrupt 1 depth queue
> GEOM: new disk ad0
> pass0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> pass0: <AirCard TRU-Install 2.31> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
> pass0: 1.000MB/s transfers
> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> start_init: trying /sbin/init
> bridge0: bpf attached
> bridge0: Ethernet address: 3a:72:35:a3:25:ce
> tun0: bpf attached
>
> Not sure why it shows up as a passthrough device ?
>
>          ---Mike