[indiana-discuss] 3g mobile connection cards

[George Koutras]

Mika,

I have tested it and it works as advertised :). The device is scanned only with a reconfiguration boot. What I have also noticed is that once you remove the device while running osol and plug it back in, usbsacm scans the device as ...storage..with id 1 while when it is scanned after a reconfiguration boot it is scanned as ...device...  with id 0. I can not say if this could be of any help on resolving the bug.

Following is the output.

Dec  4 20:24:56 support-gk genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] usbsacm0 is /pci at 0,0/pci1179,1 at 1d/device at 1
Dec  4 21:38:10 support-gk genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] /pci at 0,0/pci1179,1 at 1d/device at 1 (usbsacm0) offline
Dec  4 21:38:35 support-gk usba: [ID 912658 kern.info] USB 1.10 device (usb12d1,1003) operating at full speed (USB 1.x) on USB 1.10 root hub: storage at 1, usbsacm1 at bus address 2
Dec  4 21:38:35 support-gk genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] usbsacm1 is /pci at 0,0/pci1179,1 at 1d/storage at 1
Dec  4 21:38:35 support-gk genunix: [ID 408114 kern.info] /pci at 0,0/pci1179,1 at 1d/storage at 1 (usbsacm1) online

regards,
George


From: George Koutras <koutras_g at yahoo.com>
To: Mika Borner <opensolaris at bluewin.ch>
Cc: indiana-discuss at opensolaris.org
Sent: Wednesday, December 3, 2008 7:51:57 PM
Subject: Re: [indiana-discuss] 3g mobile connection cards


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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