[Soekris] Difficulty enabling PC5220 1xEVDO card on net4521 withpebble Linux

[Frank Cole]

Hi Phil,

Here's a deal for ya.  If you'll post your tarball and/or an updated HOWTO
for the newer kernels on your site, I'll make and send you the antenna wire
(pigtail) that you need.  Your first HOWTO got me out of jam a while back
but since then I have had no luck with the 2.6 kernels.  Send me your
mailing address off list.

Frank 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: soekris-tech-bounces at lists.soekris.com 
> [mailto:soekris-tech-bounces at lists.soekris.com] On Behalf Of Phil Karn
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 3:12 AM
> To: Ramgopal, Ram
> Cc: Tor Amundson; soekris-tech at lists.soekris.com
> Subject: Re: [Soekris] Difficulty enabling PC5220 1xEVDO card 
> on net4521 withpebble Linux
> 
> I just happened to see this thread as I'm finally doing the 
> same thing 
> here -- putting a PC5220 1xEVDO card on a net4521 running 
> Linux. Haven't 
> decided whether to add a 802.11 card and try to turn it into a 
> self-contained access point, or just connect a cheap off-the-shelf 
> 802.11 access point by Ethernet.
> 
> Rather than use a pre-existing Linux distribution, I built a 2.6.13.4 
> kernel from scratch. I'm using the usbserial driver compiled 
> as a module 
> and installed with the vendor and product codes specified on 
> the command 
> line. It all seems to work. There's no web server for administration, 
> just a SSH server and command line interface at present. I 
> also export 
> the CF file system by NFS so I can mount it on a larger Linux system.
> 
> I'd be happy to tar up the file system on my CF card and put it on my 
> web page if that would help anyone. I borrowed it from the system I 
> built a while ago for the net4801 I'm using as a DSL router 
> at home. I 
> started with busybox and manually added only those commands and 
> libraries absolutely necessary to make the box functional as 
> a router. 
> That keeps the footprint down -- about 15 MB for the DSL 
> router (2.4.27 
> kernel) and about 24 meg for the 1xEVDO router (2.6.13.4 
> kernel). I can 
> probably trim it back down a little, but CF cards that size 
> are already 
> cheap and plentiful.
> 
> Now if I can just find an antenna cable with a connector for the 5220 
> card on one end and a panel-mount TNC for the pre-punched hole on the 
> net4521's front panel. Anybody know where I can find one?
> 
> Phil
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