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 February 8, 2012 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 usb" 33.Cd "device ucom" 34.Cd "device u3g" 35.Ed 36.Pp 37Alternatively, to load the driver as a 38module at boot time, place the following line in 39.Xr loader.conf 5 : 40.Bd -literal -offset indent 41u3g_load="YES" 42.Ed 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44The 45.Nm 46driver provides support for the multiple USB-to-serial interfaces exposed by 47many 3G USB/PCCard modems. 48.Pp 49The device is accessed through the 50.Xr ucom 4 51driver which makes it behave like a 52.Xr tty 4 . 53.Sh HARDWARE 54The 55.Nm 56driver supports the following adapters: 57.Pp 58.Bl -bullet -compact 59.It 60Option GT 3G Fusion, GT Fusion Quad, etc. (only 3G part, not WLAN) 61.It 62Option GT 3G, GT 3G Quad, etc. 63.It 64Vodafone Mobile Connect Card 3G 65.It 66Vodafone Mobile Broadband K3772-Z 67.It 68Qualcomm Inc. CDMA MSM 69.It 70Huawei B190, E180v, E220 ('<Huawei Mobile>') 71.It 72Novatel U740, MC950D, X950D, etc. 73.It 74Sierra MC875U, MC8775U, etc. 75.El 76.Pp 77(See 78.Pa /sys/dev/usb/serial/u3g.c 79for the complete list of supported cards for each vendor 80mentioned above.) 81.Pp 82The supported 3G cards provide the necessary modem port for ppp, or mpd 83connections as well as extra ports (depending on the specific device) to 84provide other functions (additional command port, diagnostic port, SIM toolkit 85port). 86.Pp 87In some of these devices a mass storage device supported by the 88.Xr umass 4 89driver is present which contains Windows and Mac OS X drivers. 90The device starts up in disk mode (TruInstall, ZeroCD, etc.) and requires 91additional commands to switch it to modem mode. If your device is not 92switching automatically, please try to add quirks. See 93.Xr usbconfig 8 94and 95.Xr usb_quirk 4 . 96.Sh SEE ALSO 97.Xr tty 4 , 98.Xr ucom 4 , 99.Xr usb 4 , 100.Xr usb_quirk 4 , 101.Xr usbconfig 8 102.Sh HISTORY 103The 104.Nm 105driver appeared in 106.Fx 7.2 , 107is based on the 108.Xr uark 4 109driver, and written by 110.An Andrea Guzzo Aq aguzzo@anywi.com 111in September 2008. 112.Sh AUTHORS 113The 114.Nm 115driver was written by 116.An Andrea Guzzo Aq aguzzo@anywi.com 117and 118.An Nick Hibma Aq n_hibma@FreeBSD.org . 119Hardware for testing was provided by AnyWi Technologies, Leiden, NL. 120