Compass 597 Sprint

[mike at sentex.net]

On Thu, 7 May 2009 08:25:39 -0700, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
you wrote:

>Has anyone got a Compass 597 from Sprint to work?
>And if so can I get some pointers?

Not sure about the sprint version, but I use the Telus version and it
works quite well with u3g from STABLE and HEAD


Manufacturer: Sierra Wireless, Inc.
Model: C597 Rev 1.0 (2)
Revision: p2314500,8087 [Mar 06 2008 17:19:08]
QCOM: SWI6800V2_FD.00.32
BOOT: SWI6800V2_FP.01.45 2008/03/07 16:36:13
APPL: SWI6800V2_FP.01.45 2008/03/07 16:36:13
SWOC: CDPC_00004_01.02.02
USB VID: 0x1199 PID: 0x0023
+GCAP: +CIS707-A, CIS-856, CIS-856-A, +MS, +ES, +DS, +FCLASS

For ppp I use

evdo:
 set device /dev/cuaU0.0
 set speed 115200
 set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER TIMEOUT 5 \
           \"\" AT OK-AT-OK ATE1Q0s7=60 OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 40
CONNECT"
 set phone "#777"
 # The authname and authkey are meaningless, but you need to have them
set.
 # Verizon's servers don't seem to care what you auth as.
 set authname "doesn't matter"
 set authkey "doesn't matter either"
 disable vjcomp       
 disable acfcomp
 disable deflate 
 disable deflate24
 disable pred1
 disable protocomp
 disable mppe
 disable ipv6cp
 disable lqr
 disable echo
 set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0
 add default HISADDR                    # Add a (sticky) default route
 enable dns