Hello,
Somebody from SuSE mailing list told me to send an e-mail to winehq regarding this:
I have a Vodafone GPRS/3G (CDMA) PCMCIA card. I tried running Vodafone's software in WINE emulation but it is impossible (it crashes). Is there anything I can do about this?
Here is more info about this hardware:
# lspci -vv
0000:02:00.0 USB Controller: OPTi Inc. 82C861 (rev 10) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: OPTi Inc. 82C861 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Step ping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort - <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0 Region 0: Memory at 2f800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
The card seems to incorporate a USB circuit which somehow is connected to an internal antenna, most probably via some sort of modem. The card had labels "Qualcomm CDMA" and "Manufactured by Opti". After searching on the Internet I found the site of Qualcomm ( http://www.cdmatech.com/ ) but I don't know which chipset the card uses. It can connect to both GPRS and CDMA networks but it doesn't work in USA (only in EU). Its datarates are 384kbits downstream and 64kbits upstream (I think).
Vodafone supports this card only on Windows. The card is locked until the software transmits a PIN code that I type. I am afraid that even if I make this hardware work on GNU/Linux, I won't know how to transmit my PIN to unlock it.
Thanks,