[ltp] Verizon Wireless Access

[Alex Deucher]

On 10/7/05, Robert Thau <rst@ai.mit.edu> wrote:
> Hi.  I'm interested in getting Verizon Wireless Broadband for my R51,
> but I'm having trouble figuring out which cards have Linux drivers
> available.
>
> From what I can tell, they seem to offer three right now:
>
>   PC 5740
>   V620
>   Kyocera KPC650
>
> Does anyone have any experience with any of these?
>
> (By all accounts, any of thes card has to be activated using their
> software on a Windows box, but some on the net claim --- using
> different cards --- that it can be made to work on Linux after that.
> There is a purported KPC 650 driver here:
>
>   http://wireless-internet-broadband-service.com/
>
> but I'm a bit suspicious of code which is apparently supposed to be
> pasted out of a web page and then linked into your kernel...)
>

I'm not familiar with these cards in particular, but WAN radio
pccards/usb/etc usually just emulate a serial device and will usually
work with the serial driver with a bit of coaxing.  the code at the
bottom of that page is just an old copy of the kernel serial driver
(based on quick glance).

Alex

> rst