On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 06:15:55 -0700 (PDT), "Jeremy C. Reed"
<reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, John Nemeth wrote:
> 
> > } Novatel (or Merlin?) V620
> > 
> >      I've worked with the CDPD version of this card.  It presented a
> > serial interface, spoke PPP, and basically just worked (ignoring bugs
> > in NetBSD at various points).
> 
> Thanks for the note. I was told that the PC5740 drops connections. Any 
> connections dropping with the Novatel card? How often do you use it?
> 
> >      There are currently some nasty bugs in NetBSD's pcmcia code which
> > may affect one of more of these cards.
> 
> Anything that should be reported in gnats?
> 
> I have read now about three different cards being used (and a fourth that 
> does not work).
> 
> I cc'd Brian on this email since he just sent a PR kern/33843 about using 
> Qualcomm/Kyocera EVDO cards.
> 
> Brian: do you have any connections drop? How often do you use it?
> 
I don't think my connection-dropping problem is due to the card -- I've
talked to too many othe users with different cards who see the same
thing.  With anti-spoof filtering, it works *if* I'm stationary.  Of
course, I frequently use my card on the train...

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb