Thank you, Greg. I'm top-posting to catch every ones attention here. That is the reason I have stuck so firmly to SuSE all these years, and religiously follow these threads.
I asked a straight question, and you gave me exactly what I hoped would be the answer. Thank you for taking your time to answer, Sir! I will perhaps have to upgrade from 10.2 --> 10.3 for the latest drivers you mention, but it will certainly be worth it...living with the last several releases on dial-up has been a pain (albeit a worth-while pain...). So again, Greg, Thank YOU, and I'll let you get back to work now. Tom in New Mexico (off to the Sprint store) On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 10:58 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 11:50:35AM -0700, Tom Patton wrote: > > Since Sprint has published a set-up guide for LINUX, I'm considering > > rewarding their simple acknowledgment of us by giving it a shot...gotta > > be better than dial-up! > > > > In the guide, they state that the maximum connection speed "is limited > > by the current generic usbserial driver to approximately less than > > 500kbps.". > > It is true that the "generic" usbserial driver is a slow thing, but that > is by design. It was not made to run "real" devices like these kinds of > cards at all, and I (as the author of such code) would never recommend > that anyone do that. > > Instead, use the "sierra" and "option" drivers instead, which are > specifically written for these devices and work very well. > > So don't follow Sprint's instructions about the kernel stuff at all, > just plug your device in and the correct driver will be bound > automaticlly to the device with no needed help from you at all. This > should work just fine with the 10.3 release. > > But you will have to do the ppp configuration on your own, I don't think > that NetworkManager can handle this automatically just yet, but I do > know those developers are activly working on it. > > > Can anyone here report on their success with these cards, and if the > > above limitation is accurate? > > I've tested lots of these different cards out and had great success with > them. > > > I am considering the Sierra (USB) Air Card 595U as it has an external > > antenna connection. (I am 7 miles from a tower, and beyond DSL or > > cable) > > I'd recommend anything from Sierra Wireless right now. They have been > actively working with the Linux kernel community to support their > devices on Linux. Because of this, their devices are supported the > best, they seem to run the fastest, and if we have problems with them, > we have good contacts to solve the issues. > > Other wireless vendors have noticed this and are trying to work to catch > up (option and others), and do have their devices working on Linux, but > not necessarily at the same performance or support level yet. > > If you have any problems with these devices, please let me know. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
