[indiana-discuss] 3g mobile connection cards

[mail at jameslegg.co.uk]

Hey Andrew,

I got my nokia E71 working as a 'modem' under OpenSolaris

My blog post is hear:
http://blogs.sun.com/jameslegg/entry/mobile_internet_under_opensolaris

but most of mine is cribbed from the instructions here:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/wwan/

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Cheers
James

 Mika Borner wrote:  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.
  
I've tried to do something similar with the USB interface on my Nokiaphone (which gives me 3G access under Windows).  According to someLinux sites I read, you just run PPP over it. Solaris sees it as aserial port (I can't recall if that just worked, or if I had to add adevice alias for it), but it looks for all the world like a serial portwith nothing plugged into it, and I couldn't get any response from thephone at all, even on a plain tip connection to it.

If anyone has got this working, I'd be interested to know how.

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Cheers
Andrew
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