[PC-BSD Testing] Dialup Utility?

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <FF754228-C084-4993-AB4A-7682B8457270 at charter.net>
            Wilbert Leeper <protagonist at charter.net> writes:
: You might want to start here.   http://bsd.vwsoft.com/3g/umts.php

That's a great site to start with.  it wasn't vap, but apn that I was
thinking of.  We can likely get apn values from the iphone community
that have produced carrier packs for the iphone for non-at&t
carriers.  These have the proper apns in them, and we might be able to
leverage that knowledge.

: But other than that try a google search 3g modem command sets. Looks
: to me like they just extended the old AT command set to include
: commands for the 3g stuff.

Yes, that's right.  It is a standard AT command set, with extensions.

Warner

: On Sep 6, 2010, at 9:45 AM, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: 
: > In message: <BAY143-W717348E66E4F2819FA704AC700 at phx.gbl>
: >            Dru Lavigne <drulavigne at sympatico.ca> writes:
: > : 
: > : 
: > : > The hard part here is that the different modem families have different
: > : > init strings.  The third line of the above is specific both to 3G
: > : > modems (the AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP", part of the command) as well as
: > : > specific to my country and carrier (the last bit:
: > : > "internet2.voicestream.com").  Also, the phone number varies between
: > : > carriers and technology used.  authname/authkey likely would also need
: > : > to be configurable.
: > : > 
: > : > When I setup my modem, the hardest part was finding line 3 above :)
: > : 
: > : 
: > : How is the finding usually done? e.g. does the provider or the modem
: > : manufacturer usually include this  info in their documentation or is
: > : the user required to try their  luck with Google? Adding how to find
: > : the required  info to this screen's  help button would  be useful. I
: > : notice some bugs in this screan  and will start a separate thread on
: > : those.
: > 
: > For me, it was trial and error.  There wasn't a table anywhere of
: > these things (I think called VAPs or something similar).  But I think
: > if we have the right terminology, we may save people lots of
: > Googling.  I could help out with some of that, at least for the
: > current generation of 3G cards.  Likely we'll need something different
: > with the 4G stuff, but we won't know that until we get the gear.
: > 
: > Warner
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