From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [10.159.88.30]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 1889818 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:45:40 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: SnapperMail 2.3.7.01 by Snapperfish To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Re: Aircard Message-ID: <8546-SnapperMsg4EDDFFFDC71A1146@[10.159.88.30]> In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:45:29 -0500 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: Quoted-Printable On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:24:48 -0500 =22Stan Sidlov=22 wrote: >fwiw Sony Errison phones almost all tether with a =2410-15 internet plan a= nd a =243 cable. SE's PC Suite v6 has USB=A0Ethernet=A0driver function bypa= ssing the *99 dial-in which will give you whatever HSPDA speed in your area= .... see:=A0http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r23168168-ATT-SE-tether-near-1m= b-speed-test-wnew-drivers=A0=A0Doubtful it would work under emulation in OS= /2..... > >On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Jeffrey Race wrote: > >It's a PC card format, not USB, and I plan to use on >WXP or W2K natively or virtualized, on the GSM >network in Thailand. I can get EDGE for =2415 per month >there. =A0Can't afford a data plan in the USA =21 > >If some PC card would work on OS/2 so much the better. >jr > > >On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:11:28 -0700, Andy Willis wrote:>Lewis G Rosenthal w= rote: >>> Hi, Jeff...>> On 11/05/09 09:49 pm, Jeffrey Race thus wrote : >>>> Looking to buy something that will work on GSM and >>>> EDGE, may be Sierra 860 or 881. =A0 Can anyone offer >>>> comments/hints/comparisons? >>> IIRC, Steve Levine mentioned to me that he knew of a card which worked >>> under OS/2. I don't know if that unit is still marketed, nor do I know >>> how readily available the drivers may be. >>If this is the USB device that he helped someone with getting the driver >>to work (I can't think of the name at all right now) then the card >>hasn't been marketed in several years I think (may still work if you can >>find one). >>Ahh, google provides the answer of who in the form of the archives (Mark >>Abramowitz): >> >> >>This was from 2006 and as I recall the drivers may have been done for >>some time prior to that... in fact from the Sierra site: >> >>*AirCard 580 PC Card >>*Discontinued December 2006, supported until December 2008 >> >>It may still work on some networks... maybe Sprint as I saw something >>about their broadband having used it (its an EVDO card apparently). >>I think to get the drivers one had to send an email to Mark. >>I am not aware of any cards that work directly with OS.2, though some >>phones might be able to be tethered and used like a modem as I >>understand it. In the interim, or at least until we get a new USB stack to enable (better)= connecting to handheld devices, perhaps an ethernet bridge device, such as= this one, might be in order: http://www.resultcompany.nl/gprs/gprs.php ? J= ust a WAG... ___ Lewis G Rosenthal Rosenthal a Rosenthal, LLC Sent with SnapperMail