[indiana-discuss] 3g mobile connection cards

[George Koutras]

Thnx Mika,

I will give it a try and let you all know.

//G



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From: Mika Borner <opensolaris at bluewin.ch>
To: George Koutras <koutras_g at yahoo.com>
Cc: indiana-discuss at opensolaris.org
Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2008 6:35:33 PM
Subject: Re: [indiana-discuss] 3g mobile connection cards

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



      
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