[indiana-discuss] 3g mobile connection cards

[Mika Borner]

George Koutras wrote:
> I am sun support engineer and as many of you, when on-site I use a 3g 
> mobile connect card from a GSM provider (no advertisement here ;) ) 
> and unfortunately I need to boot into windows to use the card. I know 
> that this might be too much to ask, but most of these cards out there 
> are Huawei branded, and I was wondering if we could use them on our 
> opensolaris laptops to connect to the outside world :). In linux there 
> is an opensource s/w that sleeps my mind atm. You just need to pass 
> phone numbers, username etc and the 3g card works like a modem.
> Is there an option for Osol too?
Hi George

See my blog entry 
(http://my2ndhead.blogspot.com/2008/11/opensolaris-huawei-e220-swisscom-and.html) 
for an entry point. There are some issues with the huawei card it being 
recognized as a storage device first, instead of a serial device.

There is an unofficial patch, but I still have to do a reconfigure boot 
if I want to use the USB Modem. A bug is opened to resolve the issue.

Good luck
Mika