1.\" 2.\" Copyright (c) 2008 AnyWi Technologies 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" This code is derived from uark.c 6.\" 7.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any 8.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above 9.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. 10.\" 11.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES 12.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF 13.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR 14.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES 15.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN 16.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF 17.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. 18.\" 19.\" $FreeBSD$ 20.\" 21.Dd October 7, 2008 22.Dt U3G 4 23.Os 24.Sh NAME 25.Nm u3g 26.Nd USB support for 3G datacards 27.Sh SYNOPSIS 28To compile this driver into the kernel, 29place the following lines in your 30kernel configuration file: 31.Bd -ragged -offset indent 32.Cd "device u3g" 33.Ed 34.Pp 35Alternatively, to load the driver as a 36module at boot time, place the following line in 37.Xr loader.conf 5 : 38.Bd -literal -offset indent 39u3g_load="YES" 40.Ed 41.Sh DESCRIPTION 42The 43.Nm 44driver provides support for the multiple USB-to-serial interfaces exposed by 45many 3G USB/PCCard modems. 46.Pp 47The device is accessed through the 48.Xr ucom 4 49driver which makes it behave like a 50.Xr tty 4 . 51.Sh HARDWARE 52The 53.Nm 54driver supports the following adapters: 55.Pp 56.Bl -bullet -compact 57.It 58Option GT 3G Fusion, GT Fusion Quad, etc. (only 3G part, not WLAN) 59.It 60Option GT 3G, GT 3G Quad, etc. 61.It 62Vodafone Mobile Connect Card 3G 63.It 64Qualcomm Inc. CDMA MSM 65.It 66Huawei B190, E180v, E220 ('<Huawei Mobile>') 67.It 68Novatel U740, MC950D, X950D, etc. 69.It 70Sierra MC875U, MC8775U, etc. 71.El 72.Pp 73(See 74.Pa /sys/dev/usb/serial/u3g.c 75for the complete list of supported cards for each vendor 76mentioned above.) 77.Pp 78The supported 3G cards provide the necessary modem port for ppp, or mpd 79connections as well as extra ports (depending on the specific device) to 80provide other functions (additional command port, diagnostic port, SIM toolkit 81port). 82.Pp 83In some of these devices a mass storage device supported by the 84.Xr umass 4 85driver is present which contains Windows and Mac OS X drivers. 86The device starts up in disk mode (TruInstall, ZeroCD, etc.) and requires 87additional commands to switch it to modem mode. If your device is not 88switching automatically, please try to add quirks. See 89.Xr usbconfig 5 90and 91.Xr usb_quirk 4 . 92.Pp 93.Sh SEE ALSO 94.Xr tty 4 , 95.Xr ucom 4 , 96.Xr usb 4 , 97.Xr usb_quirk 4 , 98.Xr usbconfig 5 99.Sh HISTORY 100The 101.Nm 102driver appeared in 103.Fx 7.2 , 104is based on the 105.Xr uark 4 106driver, and written by 107.An Andrea Guzzo Aq aguzzo@anywi.com 108in September 2008. 109.Sh AUTHORS 110The 111.Nm 112driver was written by 113.An Andrea Guzzo Aq aguzzo@anywi.com 114and 115.An Nick Hibma Aq n_hibma@FreeBSD.org . 116Hardware for testing was provided by AnyWi Technologies, Leiden, NL. 117