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Huawei E220 on FreeBSD
I had a Huawei E220 USB HSDPA modem laying around for when I’m on the move. Having heard about it working on Linux (from here and there), I was wondering if I could use it under FreeBSD 7.
The short answer is: not without effort.
It appears that the modem is two-in-one devices. A flash memory stick (umass) and a modem (ubsa). Unfortunately once the umass device has been detected, FreeBSD does not look for the serial device. Thus leaving me with a 10MB memory stick.
The solution is apparently to create a custom kernel where umass is disabled, and then load ubsa before umass in the kernel loader.
It find it a bit much to create a custom kernel just for this single purpose, so I’m almost back to square one.