On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 4:30 PM, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I see. Thanks for the advice. As soon as the user gets back in town I will reconfig the hardware and see how it goes.
Thanks,
Max
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 10:34:17AM -0500, max bianco wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Matt Domsch <[1]Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
faster. usbserial max speed is 115kbps, while the Verizon card I had> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 01:09:09PM -0500, max bianco wrote:
> > I originally started this under the Archive Search thread but i
> wanted to
> > put in an appropriate subject line.
> > I was having trouble getting the Verizon EVDO 5750 Broadband Card
> to work.
> > There are several how to's out there but some are, of course,
> different
> > from others. The one that set me sailing was :
> >
> > [1]http://www.linux.com/feature/52729
>
> This is no longer the recommended procedure. You really want to not
> use usbserial driver, but instead the sierra driver (in your case, or
> option driver for GSM cards), to get 3G performance out of your card.
>
> NetworkManager 0.7.0 (in rawhide), plus latest hal and hal-info
> packages, should "just work". You get an entry for your CDMA modem in
> the NetworkManager applet. Select that, and it auto-connects and
> you're good to go. If you find it doesn't "just work", let the hal
> developers know.
>
> I just added a Dell / Verizon modem to the hal list last week, so it
> now "just works" too.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
> What do you mean by 3G performance? I thought 3G was wireless network
> standard. Do you mean it would be faster or more reliable?or both?
last week I was getting 1150kbps (~10x the speed) down, ~450kbps up.
I see. Thanks for the advice. As soon as the user gets back in town I will reconfig the hardware and see how it goes.
Thanks,
Max
