NOW $700 - PCI PCMCI Slot Card for EVDO REV A connectivity
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The Verizon card I want to test is still in use for another month or so, but I did 'borrow' it for a few hours. It is not a Sierra as I was hoping, but a Novatel V620 (I think, don't have the notes handy). Didn't have time to mess with it, but it does not come up correctly. Behaviour is similar to the Pantech. Some preliminary research seems to indicate that people have been able to get the card working under FreeBSD with some hacking. I won't be able to try until I can get the card again. I'm trying to see if I can get yet another card to test in the meantime…
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I have the hardware to do this and someone willing to send more once the card I have works, just haven't had time to make it happen yet.
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What is the status of this bounty? When do pay for the bounty?
Thanks,
Mark
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If it helps, I've got a spare Kyocera KPC650 (with contract), and a PCI-PCMCIA card… and I can put this into a pfsense box that I could provide access to. I just can't send any of this hardware out to you.
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Sorry but no, that does not help.
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hmmm..No answer to my question. Am I missing something?
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The status is that no one is working on it yet. I may be able to snag the Novatel again to test, but I can't send it off. It's a company card and has to be available in case in case someone is working off-site. Right now, I can't get one purely for testing, so I'm stuck grabbing cards when they are not deployed.
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I have access now to a 3G sprint USB card. I plan on taking this bounty.
Please if you have offered cash towards this please let me know that you are still interested.
Thanks!
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Our bounty still stands. What model of card are you getting? I might be able to get another card to test builds with when this starts rolling.
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I am still in. Just let me know when to pay up! Curious why you went with USB instead of PCMCIA with PCI adapter? One thing is good is it doesn't take up a slot for a NIC.
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Alright. Here's an update. These mods will require some kernel changes and such so I will get right on this after 1.2 is released. 1.2-RC2 will be released tomorrow so we are very very close to having 1.2 out the door.
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I think this would be an excellent feature for pfSense. I have a Soekris net4511 and want to be able to use the Sierra wireless 860 HSDPA card on it. It's just PPP, that's all. I made a feature request ticket: http://cvstrac.pfsense.com/tktview?tn=1516
EVDO and HSPDA cards natively supported in pfSense would be a Godsend. I can provide the hardware for a month or two if it will get this going. Soekris net4511, 2GB flash, and Sierra Wireless 860 HSDPA card on Cingular/AT&T. I get 1.1mbit down 58kbit up on the card in the Dallas TX area.
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Gents,
I'd be happy to add to the bounty if this support includes Sierra 875U support as well (same Sierra driver apparently supports 850/860/875/875u anyway).. Will add another $600 for a "newbie"-ready solution quickly :) with some basic doco!
It would need to be another WAN port option that can support failover between LAN ports and 3G card. (What we are doing is failing over between 3x ethernet links and 3G in a mobile situation where there is satellite options etc.
Cheers!
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Did this bounty ever get completed? Any updated status?
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I was reading over at evdoforums and came across the following thread. http://www.evdoforums.com/thread6875.html This started to make me think. Would the mini-pci slot on the wrap board support this card once driver support is built into pfsense? This would be a pretty slick setup, having everything fully contained inside the box besides an antenna.
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I believe that all the WRAPs, etc have mini-pci slots and the EVDO cards are mini-PCIe cards, and would not fit.
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Just a bump…unless there is an update...... ;D
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Edit: I may have spoken too soon. I was looking to come over here from m0n0wall but just realized that the embedded version of pfSense requires 128mb of ram and I only have 64 so unless the solution can be easily ported over to m0n0wall, I will have to withdraw my offer.
I can add another $100 for a solution that works with a Sprint Aircard 580 (Qualcomm MSM 5500) as a failover solution in case our dsl goes out. It doesn't have to be an automatic failover in my case as the card won't be permanently in the Soekris 4521, it will be manually inserted if the dsl goes down. Of course an automatic failover option would be nice too. ;-)
I can provide remote terminal access to the Soekris board and card if it helps.
Pyramid linux is supposed to have this feature but I have had several issues with Pyramid so I am looking at other distros.
Thanks,
JeffP.S. By the previous subject line, I am assuming this brings the bounty to $700
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I don't think anyone monitoring this post gets notified by a modification. Try posting a new message. As to your question you might want to direct that to one of the devs.
Mark
