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

At 10:48 AM 11/5/2008, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>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.


For the archives, I was able to get the card working with the latest 
version of the driver from the SVN tree! 
(http://people.freebsd.org/~n_hibma/u3g.html)

For the hardware, I used
http://www.pcengines.ch/alix6b2.htm
with RELENG_7 and nanobsd.  The board has dual SIM slots, but there 
are no drivers to switch between the two, so just the top one works.

When I bought the mini-pciexpress card (or PCI Express Mini Card), it 
was listed as a MC8775, where as ati3 shows a Sierra MC8781.  I 
bought it on ebay from the US and it works fine using my Roger's 
blackbery SIM here in Ontario, Canada.


# cat /var/run/dmesg.boot
Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
         The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Thu Nov  6 12:05:41 EST 2008
     mdtancsa_at_nanobsd2.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/nanobsd.alix/usr/src/sys/nano5501
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS (498.05-MHz 586-class CPU)
   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x5a2  Stepping = 2
   Features=0x88a93d<FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,CX8,SEP,PGE,CMOV,CLFLUSH,MMX>
   AMD Features=0xc0400000<MMX+,3DNow!+,3DNow!>
real memory  = 268435456 (256 MB)
avail memory = 253202432 (241 MB)
pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum
K6-family MTRR support enabled (2 registers)
cryptosoft0: <software crypto> on motherboard
pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> pcibus 0 on motherboard
pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
...
u3gstub0: at uhub0 port 2 (addr 2) disconnected
u3gstub0: detached
....
ucom0: <Sierra Wireless, Incorporated AirCard, class 0/0, rev 
1.10/0.02, addr 2> on uhub0
ucom0: configured 3 serial ports (U0.%d)



# cu -l /dev/cuaU0.2
Connected
ati
Manufacturer: Sierra Wireless, Inc.
Model: MC8781
Revision: F1_0_0_4CAP C:/WS/FW/F1_0_0_4CAP/MSM7200R3/SRC/AMSS 
2007/09/25 18:39:23
IMEI: 356685011922513
IMEI SV: 4
FSN: D350568535811
3GPP Release 6
+GCAP: +CGSM,+DS,+ES

at!GSTATUS?
!GSTATUS:
Current Time:  3455             Temperature: 30
Bootup Time:   3201             Mode:        ONLINE
System mode:   WCDMA            PS state:    Not attached
WCDMA band:    WCDMA800         GSM band:    Unknown
WCDMA channel: 1037             GSM channel: 65535
GMM (PS) state:DEREGISTERED     NO IMSI
MM (CS) state: IDLE             NO IMSI

WCDMA L1 State:L1M_PCH_SLEEP    RRC State:   DISCONNECTED
RX level (dBm):-87


OK
at^SYSINFO
^SYSINFO: 1,0,1,5,255