GPRS/UMTS device for a FreeBSD notebook ?

[Bengt Ahlgren]

Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> writes:

> El día Sunday, May 29, 2011 a las 05:44:00PM +0200, Bengt Ahlgren escribió:
>
>> I use the uhso driver with an Option ICON 7.2 (needed firmware update).
>> It works very well indeed and much better than the ubsa driver I used
>> before.  With uhso you get a real network interface and thus don't need
>> to fiddle around with ppp.  You still get some serial ports with which
>> you can do "at" commands to control the modem if you want to do that
>> manually.  Otherwise the uhsoctl program takes care of all that for you.
>> At least on my laptop (Thinkpad X40), ppp over serial port didn't go
>> faster than 300kbit/sec or so.  With uhso I get much more.
>
> This and the man page uhso(4) sound very interesting... Are these Option
> cards USB devices? Do you have a pointer where to get one of this sticks
> in Europe? Thanks

Mine is USB - I think they have cardbus variants too, but as far as I
understand, they are still internally USB-based.

I think I got mine here: http://www.dustin.se/ - they at least have them
now.  See http://www.dustin.se/lp_21255_8518.aspx - klick the small UK
flag at the top to switch to English.

http://www.option.com/ might also give you some clues.

Bengt