The USB stick I am talking about is apparently plug&play and no drivers needed. Of course, I assume this means it's a generic driver that is included with the consumer OS's. My big question is, does it work with pfSense.
-----Original Message----- From: Vick Khera [mailto:vi...@khera.org] Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:10 AM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Internet at the lake? Rogers Mobile Internet Stick (Rocket) with pfSense? On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Chuck Mariotti <cmario...@xunity.com> wrote: > I have the option of staying/working from a home on a the Lake for a number > of weeks this summer here in Ontario/Canada. Nice and relaxed. Unfortunately, > the only internet access is dialup, which is not acceptable (of course). I've been pondering building a DIY mobile hot-spot based on a CDMA or other 3g usb stick + pfSense on an ALIX board. I could just plug it into my car and take it along with me wherever I go... When we were at BSDCon in DC last month, the local wifi provided was over a shared connection built this way by hand using an OpenBSD laptop as the gateway to the verizon network via usb stick. It worked quite well for the first day :-) The adapter they had at that time showed itself as a traditional USB serial port with a modem attached to it. All they had to do was run PPP on it to authenticate (not sure if it was PPPoE or just plain PPP). If it is PPPoE then I would think pfSense could do it if we convinced it to talk over the USB serial port rather than a real ethernet. Being an a perpetual "lack of time" situation I haven't gotten around to diving into this project, but I would be interested in hearing if anyone has gotten pfSense to talk directly to such a modem. Heck, that would make for an awesome failover connection at the office, too! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
