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Merlin 630 PCMCIA Data Card
user name
2006-05-19 01:01:45
I've been trying to get a Merlin 630 card working with
NetBSD for the past
month or so.  The following information is what I could find
about the
basic card:

"There's plenty of good news: The card is not network
locked (an MTN SIM
works fine in the "Vodafone" Novatel Merlin U630
card); the card uses
standard serial-over-PCMCIA protocols; it uses standard
"at"
commands; neither the Vodacom nor MTN GPRS services require
any weird PPP
settings; MTN's GPRS network uses proper IP addresses and I
didn't notice
any weird filters. "

When I plug the card it, it isn't properly recognized by
the system, so I
can't get up the PPP connection.  The one thing that I did
notice was that
the card seems to be providing USB style COM ports on the
PCMCIA
interface.

Does anyone know the proper incantation to help this card be
recognized
with NetBSD 3.0?

-- 
Dave Burgess
President, Nebraska On-Ramp
Bellevue, NE 68005


Merlin 630 PCMCIA Data Card
user name
2006-05-19 12:28:40
  "There's plenty of good news: The card is not
network locked (an MTN SIM
  works fine in the "Vodafone" Novatel Merlin
U630 card); the card uses
  standard serial-over-PCMCIA protocols; it uses standard
"at"
  commands; neither the Vodacom nor MTN GPRS services
require any weird PPP
  settings; MTN's GPRS network uses proper IP addresses and
I didn't notice
  any weird filters. "

  When I plug the card it, it isn't properly recognized by
the system, so I
  can't get up the PPP connection.  The one thing that I
did notice was that
  the card seems to be providing USB style COM ports on the
PCMCIA
  interface.

"serial-over-PCMCIA" and "USB style
COM" are different, but I can see
how someone with a working driver like our ugensa might not
notice the
messy difference.  Can you post dmesg from plugging in?

See sys/dev/usb/ugensa.c.  In current, I added support for
the Kyocera
card that Verizon uses for EVDO.  

ohci0 at cardbus0 function 0: NEC USB Host Controller (rev.
0x43)
ohci0: interrupting at 11
ohci0: OHCI version 1.0
usb3 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub3 at usb3
uhub3: NEC OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub3: 1 port with 1 removable, self powered
ohci1 at cardbus0 function 1: NEC USB Host Controller (rev.
0x43)
ohci1: interrupting at 11
ohci1: OHCI version 1.0
usb4 at ohci1: USB revision 1.0
uhub4 at usb4
uhub4: NEC OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub4: 1 port with 1 removable, self powered
ugensa0 at uhub3 port 1
ugensa0: Qualcomm, Incorporated Qualcomm CDMA Technologies
MSM, rev 1.10/0.00, addr 2
ugensa0: unexpected endpoint
ucom0 at ugensa0 portno 0: Generic Serial Device


-- 
        Greg Troxel <gdtir.bbn.com>
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