Subject: Re: Novatel Wireless 3G card support ?
To: Joel CARNAT <joel@carnat.net>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/07/2007 21:59:31
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 03:41:42 +0100 (CET)
"Joel CARNAT" <joel@carnat.net> wrote:

>
> >
> > I've used EVDO with verizon and sprint, but not HSDPA, and I'm not
> > even sure if that's just sprint's name for EVDO.
> >
> 
> Well, my provider is Orange (France).
> I know nothing about telephony protocol but according to
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSDPA, EVDO is not exactly the same
> thing.
> 
> But I still wouldn't know what to do wit such an information anyway :)
> 
With a bit of poking around, you can find free or short-term free usb
trace software.  Use it to see what the AT sequences are and build a
pppd chat script (assuming, of course, that you can make ugensa or ucom
talk to it).


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