[PPP] Dialing using a cellphone

Mel fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net
Sat Feb 2 09:16:55 PST 2008


On Saturday 02 February 2008 17:44:58 Matthias Apitz wrote:

> > At boot, FreeBSD recognizes the phone as a USB modem:
> > ugen: Samsung Mobile USB Modem, rev. 2.00/1.00, addr 2
>

...

> > However, when I try to actually dial out, I get:
> > tun0: Warning: chat_Write: Operation not supported by device
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> PPP needs a serial device to work with, 'ugen' does not
> provide this;

More to the point, umodem(4) lists the supported USB modems.
The thing to do would be send-pr with output of pciconf -lv and request 
support for this modem.

-- 
Mel


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